purblind
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When governments and their advisers are, as matter of course, using AI to improve their decision-making, expect fewer purblind, tunnel-visioned strategic decisions based on wishful thinking.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The ECB's purblind refusal to reveal anything about the trip, as if it involved some top-secret military manoeuvres rather than just some abseiling and hiking, has goaded the media into a suspicious reaction.
From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2010
If anyone can answer all the questions without finding something to own up to, Father Wilson thinks that he must be either "a saint or spiritually purblind."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Bette Davis, a peppery, small-town librarian, moves like Lady Bountiful among the worshipful peasants in her reading room, opening their purblind eyes to the treasure trove on the shelves around them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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