How to Use blinkered in a Sentence

blinkered

adjective
  • Many physicists take these troubles to mean that their field has gone astray and that their colleagues are too blinkered to notice.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Ulbricht also had the same blinkered view of the consequences of his actions.
    — Nitasha Tiku, New York Times, 12 June 2017
  • At times, Fedorova’s valiantly open-minded kinksters can seem blinkered in their own way.
    — Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • From the point of view of an opposition party, anything that can get the president so blinkered with rage has merit.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 10 May 2017
  • Warren’s blinkered statement provoked a backlash, and rightly so.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Dec. 2024
  • But his ascent has given him a blinkered view of the power of talent, ingenuity, and gumption.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 12 Jan. 2017
  • But at the height of their powers, giant companies make blinkered, unreliable guides to their own futures.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • This was a blinkered view of reproductive healthcare rights, however.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Given the details of the situation, however, there’s a case to be made for disabusing your blinkered boss.
    — New York Times, 30 July 2019
  • The former aspires to global, or at least hemispheric, coverage, while the latter is inevitably a little blinkered.
    — Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • And by a blinkered nonrecognition of the animus behind Noem’s action.
    — George F. Will, Washington Post, 26 June 2026
  • The fault doesn’t wholly lie with Clegg, who as the company’s head of global affairs is no doubt hemmed in by Zuckerberg’s own blinkered vision.
    — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2019
  • The question is far from academic, since the president’s blinkered behavior plays right into the autocrats’ hands.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 8 June 2018
  • By that blinkered calculus, an informative podcast will always trump music.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it—that's the argument.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 26 May 2018
  • This has encouraged a type of blinkered and oftentimes unambitious style of activism among young people, which asks for many changes but does not challenge the system that provides them with their own lofty status.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
  • After presenting a morass of rich themes, Nwosu teases out a small, surprising finale that transcends the blinkered concerns driving her protagonist.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Having served Soviet Russia, Geim knows only too well the risks of blinkered national hubris and isolationism.
    — Simon Parkin, Bloomberg.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • And that would leave the United States weaker and poorer, too, even if there are a great many people in Washington who are too ignorant and blinkered to understand the fact.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 June 2019
  • Her blinkered perspective is consumed with semi-realized introspection and self-reprobation.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • With her big inward eyes and perpetual glower, Northam effectively conveys Elsa’s restless, blinkered life.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Any but the most blinkered apologist for Israel would have to concede that Israel’s response went at least somewhat beyond its legitimate security needs.
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 15 May 2018
  • The neoliberal consensus between progressives and libertarians has produced a blinkered set of moral concerns.
    — Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Their mini-quests provide a bit of decent action here and there, as well as plenty of principled banter between a blinkered optimist (Lucy) and jaded doomsayer (Ghoul).
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Despite her reputation for controversy, Roiphe has never been that formidable a polemicist; her perspective is too blinkered, her blind spots too obvious.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Yiannopoulos is of a blinkered tradition that sees no distinction worth examining between martyrdom and limitations on one’s ability to attack others.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • The variety of politics that preoccupied the literary scene in New York turned out to be fractious, blinkered, and less than helpful on almost every front, including the artistic.
    — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025

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