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- noun Alternative spelling of
blind spot .
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Examples
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People who go into the right lane with the goal of passing but instead drive alongside you in your blindspot are the effin worst.
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Although (iii) is consistent and might be knowable by others, (iii) cannot be known by the student before Friday. (iii) is a "blindspot" for the students but not for, say, the teacher's colleagues.
Epistemic Paradoxes Sorensen, Roy 2006
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Blair also said it is a major "blindspot" that intelligence analysts don't have "Google-like" search capability to match up nuggets of intelligence with names in their own databases.
Thisday Online 2010
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Blair also said it is a major "blindspot" that intelligence analysts don't have "Google-like" search capability to match up nuggets of intelligence with names in their own databases.
Thisday Online 2010
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The incident happened in a CCTV "blindspot", however, police believe the incident was witnessed by a number of doormen but want other clubbers to come forward with information.
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Does anyone really believe the Russians cannot detect Nork launches that would mean parts of China would fall into that "blindspot".
ArmsControlWonk 2009
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Does anyone really believe the Russians cannot detect Nork launches that would mean parts of China would fall into that "blindspot".
ArmsControlWonk 2009
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It never ceases to amaze me at this kind of blindspot.
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This news saturation and the media blindspot in the region of conflict might be keeping the true scale of the humanitarian impact hidden.
Ahmad Shuja: Iraqi Kurds: Displaced by Iranian and Turkish Operations, Ignored by the World Ahmad Shuja 2011
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Isn't that kind of failure of imagination -- that sort of blindspot -- closer to fanaticism than any suggestion Greenwald made on the subject?
Jonathan Weiler: On False Equivalencies Jonathan Weiler 2010
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