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bleary

[bleer-ee] / ˈblɪər i /




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She was clad in a sweatshirt and bleary from the early hour.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Stewart has made an assured mess: a bleary, florid and sometimes lyrical film that could stand to be doused by a bucket of ice water.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

Instead, my laptop greeted my bleary eyes with a font of good tidings.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2025

For 90 tightly-wound minutes, Green mixes bleary naturalism and baked-in dread, as these modern women are exposed to the handsy, winking Neanderthal clientele, and the bar turns into a ticking time bomb.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2024

The soldiers’ blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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