blind spot
nounDefinition of blind spot
1a
: the small circular area at the back of the retina where the optic nerve enters the eyeball and which is devoid of rods and cones and is not sensitive to light
— called also optic disk
— see eye illustration
b
: a portion of a field that cannot be seen or inspected with available equipment
2
: an area in which one fails to exercise judgment or discrimination
Examples of blind spot in a Sentence
When driving on the highway, you need to make sure no one is in your blind spot before changing lanes.
She has a blind spot concerning her son's behavior.
Recent Examples on the Web
For all its geopolitical achievements, moreover, the Nixon-Kissinger playbook also comes with blind spots and limitations. — Vance Serchuk, National Review, "Russia’s Middle East Power Play," 12 Sep. 2019 Unfortunately, blind spot and cross-traffic alerts, my favorite advanced safety systems, were extra-cost options missing from my car, which stickered at $23,537. — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, "Every car should be a little like the 2020 Toyota Corolla hybrid," 11 Sep. 2019 Benavidez, 52, was caught in one of the haul truck’s blind spots and crushed to death. — Mark Olalde, AZCentral.com, "Backup cameras would save miners' lives. So why are mines fighting against using them?," 26 June 2019 The primate experiments, set for 2021, involve making a small lesion in the visual cortex of up to six macaque monkeys to generate a tiny blind spot in their field of vision. — Alison Abbott, Science | AAAS, "Italian blindness researchers planning monkey studies threatened after health ministry releases names," 21 Aug. 2019 This statement from the character Elizabeth Howard (Crystal Fox) to her daughter Bonnie Carlson, on Episode 2 of Big Little Lies’s second season, seemed to be the show’s tacit acknowledgment of its glaring, first-season blind spot. — Shamira Ibrahim, The Atlantic, "Will Big Little Lies Finally Show Up for Bonnie?," 21 July 2019 Consumer Reports recommends car shoppers look for vehicles with blind spot warning. — Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN, "Most drivers say safety tech has saved them from crashes," 25 June 2019 Gang members mingled in blind spots where staff members were unable to keep track, and design flaws made segregating inmates exceptionally challenging. — Jason Pohl, ProPublica, "Deadly Delays in Jail Construction Cost Lives and Dollars Across California," 20 July 2019 So when people in the future start reading the Egyptians’ records, there are a lot of blind spots. — National Geographic, "Episode 4: Scuba diving in a pyramid," 2 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'blind spot.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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