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Recent Examples of blindfolded
Over the past 15 years, filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, blindfolded, interrogated, and put under house arrest with a 20-year ban on making films.
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2026
Ballal said he was zip-tied and blindfolded and held for 24 hours at an Israeli army base before being released.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
The 45-second commercial directed by Oscar-winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) opens with a blindfolded polar bear sitting in a gleaming white lab at a desk with a can of Pepsi Zero Sugar and Coke Zero Sugar in front of him.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
Instead, investigators say once inside, she was ambushed, pistol-whipped, blindfolded and dragged into the basement.
—Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2026
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2026
Ballal said he was zip-tied and blindfolded and held for 24 hours at an Israeli army base before being released.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
The 45-second commercial directed by Oscar-winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) opens with a blindfolded polar bear sitting in a gleaming white lab at a desk with a can of Pepsi Zero Sugar and Coke Zero Sugar in front of him.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
Instead, investigators say once inside, she was ambushed, pistol-whipped, blindfolded and dragged into the basement.
—Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindfolded
Adjective
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The host handed me a blindfold and Bose noise-canceling headphones, playing the hypnotic sounds of a space drum with birds chirping in the distance.—
Shelby Hartman,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Eventually, a soldier came and returned my ID, removed the blindfold, untied me, and ordered me to go south immediately.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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The Oilers foundation uses a service provider called Win50, a company accredited by the Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis (AGLC), a provincial-government regulatory body.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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State Grid currently operates across 26 of mainland China’s 31 provincial-level regions, while China Southern Power Grid covers five southern regions, including Guangdong, reports SCMP.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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One of the critical risks to patient privacy is the accidental inclusion of personally identifiable information in what is supposed to be a blinded data payload.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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The strongest lingering image of Vernon in the broader culture is still the bearded woodsman who retreated to the wilderness with a broken heart and returned with a gnomic, insular album that would against all odds come to define its era, or at least one tendency within it.—
Mitch Therieau,
Pitchfork,
8 Apr. 2026
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Westmont is a small, insular community often selected for its security — when are people going to start moving out?—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2026
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The city’s geographic location insulates it from some of the excesses and blinkered thinking that often dominate other metropolises.—
Daniel Holz,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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At times, Fedorova’s valiantly open-minded kinksters can seem blinkered in their own way.—
Lillian Fishman,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
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Research shows the disparity between vaccination coverage in private and parochial/religious versus public schools is that private and parochial/religious schools tend to have higher rates of exemptions to vaccinations for moral and religious beliefs.—
Kar-Hai Chu,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2026
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But quietly, the third-year forward had put himself in position for a more parochial reserve reward, one that caught him unaware.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2026
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And while a few of its more hidebound customs can present something of an endurance test—outside of Chicagoland, nobody actually enjoys Take Me Out to the Ball Game—fans would probably riot if MLB managers stopped wearing their team’s uniform.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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Trump expresses confidence that his nominee to become Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, can unleash an economic bonanza by jettisoning what the president sees as the central bank’s hidebound reluctance to slash interest rates.—
Paul Wiseman,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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President of baseball operations David Stearns is not reactionary.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
27 Apr. 2026
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The margins in that 2-1 City defeat were razor-thin, whatever any more reactionary narratives might say.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Blindfolded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindfolded. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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