blinders
Example Sentences
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The Rams need to play with blinders on.
From Los Angeles Times
His favorite setup is the Victor snap trap, modified with wooden blinders so the rats must enter headfirst.
From New York Times
You put the blinders on and move forward.”
From Seattle Times
She wished she could put on “blinders,” she said.
From New York Times
Then came the sleek third act, an unsettling metaphysical spin into the afterlife, when a good “Our Town” bowls you over with its reminder of the blinders we wear, screening out the tiny daily joys.
From Washington Post
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