blow
Example Sentences
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Buttressing that trade, Fed officials have at times sounded more concerned about the inflationary impact of the war than its blow to growth.
Kebede said schools would struggle to fund an increase in teachers' pay of even 2% next year from their budgets, and the inclusion fund would "merely soften the blow of underfunding".
From BBC
Were they to do so again, it would be another big blow to the global economy.
From BBC
But if you thought the musicals-as-stunt-programming trend blew itself out completely, you are mistaken.
From Salon
“I wasn’t trying to blow the doors wide open,” he said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
