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  • adverb In a bleary manner.

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Examples

  • Forty years ago this very morning, we woke blearily from a feverish jam-packed party all‑nighter which had jubilantly swirled around a whole floor of the swish Regency Hyatt hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

    The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed Frank Keating 2010

  • She glared blearily at the flight attendants, remembering what it felt like to have the flu and summoning all that misery to her face.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • Next thing he knew, he was sitting, staring blearily up into the dark canopy of the jungle.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • This TV year could quite forgivably have kicked off its first week as did the rest of us, blearily zonked by family and travel and too many mismatched memories of an extremely strange 2011; begun it either literally or figuratively by leaning grudgingly into the wind with itchy present-socks and scratchy foreboding and an old-brain urge to simply… hide… until spring.

    Rewind TV: Sherlock; Endeavour; Public Enemies; New Girl – review 2012

  • Next thing he knew, he was sitting, staring blearily up into the dark canopy of the jungle.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • I'd been up all night, in fact, as had my father (my mother slept, but was blearily there for the landing.)

    From Twitter 07-19-2009 2009

  • Next thing he knew, he was sitting, staring blearily up into the dark canopy of the jungle.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Leslie looks at the man hung in the doorframe, blearily rubbing at his eyes, and searches his face for genetic cues, anything to connect herself to him.

    AND BABY MAKES TWO • by Stephen D. Rogers 2009

  • I ripped it off and flipped it over, squinting blearily at what was written on the other side.

    Odd Girl In Jo Whittemore 2011

  • Leslie looks at the man hung in the doorframe, blearily rubbing at his eyes, and searches his face for genetic cues, anything to connect herself to him.

    AND BABY MAKES TWO • by Stephen D. Rogers 2009

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