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  • noun Alternative spelling of blind spot.

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blind +‎ spot

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Examples

  • People who go into the right lane with the goal of passing but instead drive alongside you in your blindspot are the effin worst.

    Six Rules for Driving 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    lep.co.uk - News Feed 2010

  • Does anyone really believe the Russians cannot detect Nork launches that would mean parts of China would fall into that "blindspot".

    ArmsControlWonk 2009

  • Does anyone really believe the Russians cannot detect Nork launches that would mean parts of China would fall into that "blindspot".

    ArmsControlWonk 2009

  • It never ceases to amaze me at this kind of blindspot.

    Why diversity matters 2009

  • 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

  • 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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