bludgeon
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“It’s because governments usually resort to blunt instruments, opting for the bludgeon of sweeping tariffs and subsidies over the scalpel of industrial parks and skills development programs.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
At their core, they are a team built to bludgeon opponents — not slap singles and drop down sacrifice bunts.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2025
Liam Livingstone then arrived, full of intent, to bludgeon a pair of enormous sixes as Bethell settled at the other end but he fell before he could do any significant damage.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
Rather than brainwashing us, the objective of the totalitarian is to bludgeon us into apathy, resignation and passivity.
From Salon • May 24, 2025
—William Cowper Innumeracy, Freud, and Pseudoscience Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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