sightless
Americanadjective
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blind
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invisible
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Origin of sightless
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For a sightless artist—his preferred term—Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a remarkably visual performer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Possibly to save audiences from a similar fate, we were never permitted to see these terrors, leaving us as sightless as the movie’s scrabbling survivors.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
The sightless child knows the other children, all able to see, are there but is left to stumble around, using sounds and knowledge of the space they're in as guides.
From Salon ● May 25, 2023
Chinese red-headed centipedes, which are sightless, use an unusual thermal sensor to detect sunlight, a study has found.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 15, 2023
Then the plane, already in the overcast, entered into the sightless suspended world that had enveloped Ravenel.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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