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[blahynd-fohld] / ˈblaɪndˌfoʊld /


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"He didn't even lift the blindfold off - I'm speechless," said Maya.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

One woman I interviewed remembered that while she was blindfolded, she was able to peek under her blindfold and see a tile pattern on the floor.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2026

“And the next gate, you can’t see it until you’re pretty much on top of it. You might as well put on a blindfold because you can’t see anything in front of you.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

One day, Panahi recalls, Kiarostami drove him out of the city and asked him to wear a blindfold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

Suddenly her eyebrows flew up above the blindfold.

From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene

They later travel to the castle in a fleet of black cars, before Winkleman chooses her traitors while everyone wears their blindfolds.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Players are required to wear blindfolds for fairness.

From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025

The far easier solution is for them to take off their blindfolds and see the full scale of the monstrosity for what it is.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

All it took were Hollywood-trained animals, a set of enormous blindfolds and a willingness to — carefully — nudge one of the planet’s largest land mammals ever so slightly off balance.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

When the lights were off, as they were between nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so dark that people might as well have been wearing blindfolds.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

Down: It’s like playing the piano with the foot pedal, blindfolded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

The mother of the motorist who found the children told Portuguese media that one of the boys said they had been blindfolded and told to look for a hidden toy.

From Barron's ● May 23, 2026

"It's a bit like playing pin the tail on the donkey with us being partly blindfolded and there being very little donkey left for us to pin the tail on," Sherborne complained.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

Both were blindfolded, but Issa recognized his friend’s voice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

All ten of us climbed under the ropes and allowed ourselves to be blindfolded with broad bands of white cloth.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

I started by blindfolding myself and quickly realized that made my notes incoherent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

Japan has accused Russia's security services of blindfolding and restraining one of its diplomats in the eastern city of Vladivostok.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2022

And this idea of essentially blindfolding ourselves and pretending like the justice system is the one place in this country where race has no influence whatsoever, where gender and bias mean nothing, that's preposterous.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2022

Evidence in the blindfolding trial has included phone chat messages exchanged by several Carabinieri.

From Fox News ● Feb. 10, 2022

The blindfolding, the walk to the secret entrance, the exhausting climb up countless steps—all of it seemed to pass in one excruciating instant.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart


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