blindness

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Noun
  • After his arrest, Duffy had faked amnesia and sought asylum in a psychiatric hospital, where doctors prevented the police from interrogating him, but the pretense of the amnesia was exposed at the trial by his ex-wife and a friend.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • Content is simply there, clogging up the arteries of streaming services and clickbait sites, offering up buffets of empty calories and almost instant amnesia.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The sterile flies proceeded to, well, screw the continent’s wild populations into oblivion, and in 2006, an invisible barrier was established at the Darién Gap, the jungle that straddles the Panama-Colombia border, to cordon the screwworm-free north off from the south.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
  • Even one of these incidents could have been enough to break a player and send him off into oblivion.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
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“Blindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindness. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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