blinkered

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Recent Examples of blinkered With her big inward eyes and perpetual glower, Northam effectively conveys Elsa’s restless, blinkered life. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024 Then there was the museum’s debut survey of the film industry, which came in for a drubbing for what was perceived to be its anxious, overcompensating political correctness, coupled with a blinkered vision that paid little mind to the Hollywood studio system and its founders. Gary Baum For The Hollywood Reporter, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2024 His was a kinder form of the historical determinism of a Morgan or a Grant perhaps, but no less blinkered and time-bound. Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023 In Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II, the Dartmouth literary scholar James A.W. Heffernan proposes that academic and popular histories, diaries, and journalistic accounts offer only a blinkered view of the past. Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for blinkered
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinkered
Adjective
  • And yet conceding those messy parochial disputes to powers outside the university seems to some to represent no less of a crisis.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Nation-states and their parochial identities would give way to an interdependent and cosmopolitan future.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In Katy Hays' Saltwater, out March 25 from Ballantine Books, the insular superrich Lingate family is haunted by the 1992 death of Sarah Lingate, found dead below the cliffs of Capri and leaving behind her toddler Helen.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The job of marketing Chicago as a national tech player and serving as a fulcrum for what can be an insular world is critical and isn’t a luxury the city can afford to do without.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The head of the religious school was among those killed, said provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali Saif.
    Reuters, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The necklace may have been worn by someone in the Lusatian culture, or during the early days of the West Baltic Kurgan culture, according to the provincial office.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • But even if the headline acts have to be quietly canceled, the appointment of figures like Sacks and Peirce signal that the reactionary era of US crypto policy is over.
    Sean Lee, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Amanat recognizes how even their own internal conversations went to either end of the reactionary spectrum.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Those fired were not hidebound deep state bureaucrats merely slurping from the federal trough.
    Southern California News Group Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Belatedly, political classes (and some of Japan’s huge industrial conglomerates) are realizing the economic value, employment potential and soft power impact of a less hidebound and risk-averse film and TV industry.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024

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“Blinkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blinkered. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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