Example Sentences

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Blunting some of that criticism, many banks rose Tuesday.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Blunting outside noise has been especially important this week.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2022

Blunting the effects of misinformation will help with the larger goal of overcoming societal divisions.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2021

Blunting is avoidance, setting the bad news off to the side or pretending it isn’t happening at all.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2021

Strange to all Seem'd it; the youth, from every weapon safe By wound unconquerable, and with skin Blunting the keenest steel.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.