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[blahynd] / blaɪnd /






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The study used a double blind design, meaning neither the participants nor the experimenter knew which substance had been administered during a particular session.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

"Without the thermal technology we would be totally blind to this."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The book opens in December 2006 with a 29-year-old Tom Brady anxiously heading out for a blind date with Ms. Bündchen: the kind of scene that tells readers they’re in for something new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

When Madison’s Frances goes on a blind date, her online match says he appreciates that the internet makes it simpler for singles to pair up “within their own vector.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

I could have smacked my forehead over her blind stupidity, but I held myself in check.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

It’s a statement that they lowered the blinds twice, and then they told the media to leave.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Rob used to own a café, but he now installs blinds and curtains for a living and uses his free time to channel his culinary creativity.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

I joke that I like to think I can understand when my cat’s meow is asking me to open the bedroom window blinds, which is where her desired bird-watching perch is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Journalists on the old plane out of Ankara were also told to keep their window blinds down -- a step normally reserved for war zones -- furthering suspicions of security concerns.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

I flick it back and forth until it moves from numb to pins and needles, then I peek through the blinds to see if Mom is here.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

"They didn't recruit me but I think they played an absolutely blinder and they deserve it at this stage," he added.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

Most shooters compete with a blinder on one eye to keep the muscles relaxed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

He now values blind loyalty and even blinder sycophancy more than electoral appeal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

Green has a reputation for superb gully catches - he took a blinder on Friday - but the controversy over this latest grab caused the biggest talking point over the day.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2023

“I may be blinder than any bat, but I got me a government-issue rifle. It was the one my husband, Mr. Hamline, carried when he fought with Captain Lilly’s Eighteenth Indiana Light Artillery at Chicamauga.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Of course he is Ghanaian and the fact that his younger brother Nico is playing for Spain does not make the blindest bit of difference.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2022

“My presence in Washington wouldn’t have made the blindest bit of difference,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

But there is a saying that Carlos, a man of many sayings, sometimes applied to Jorge: ‘‘The blindest man is the one who does not want to see.’’

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015

But unless you're going to require journalists and bloggers to embrace such a pettifogging regime too, you're pottering down the blindest of alleys, regulating human nature until your wig falls off.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2012

It took a long time for me to disengage myself from this excitement, and on the blindest, most visceral level, I never really have, and never will.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

“The trial is ongoing and remains blinded as the company works toward enrolling an additional cohort,” Moderna said Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Are investors too blinded by AI that they’re ignoring opportunity elsewhere?

From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026

Researchers report the first blinded, randomized, sham-controlled evidence that a procedure called duodenal mucosal resurfacing may offer a safe and lasting way to maintain weight loss without ongoing medication.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026

Collins spoke out for the first time at a Wednesday news conference since being blinded at the rally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

After the darkness of the cellar, the light had hurt our eyes, almost blinded us.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

He also lambasted people’s preoccupation with possessing money as warping their imaginations and blinding them to the existence of more fulfilling possibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Did the fun of the film festival circuit eventually become a blinding limelight, through which Adrian couldn’t see past as he got older?

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

The sun is blinding hot, but that has not deterred the tourist hordes from splashing about in the ocean.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

But for the fashionistas, the Met Gala -- traditionally held on the first Monday in May -- is simply one of the world's top red carpets with blinding star power.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

In the moment before the explosion, before the white light becomes too blinding to discern precisely what is happening, they dissolve into the air.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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