blunt
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But he is also blunt about where he thinks things are heading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
McConnell’s mysterious hospital stay and Kean’s months-long absence raise a blunt question: what do voters deserve to know about the health and aging of our lawmakers?
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
His conclusion was blunt: "You must have officials within the system who will validate your corrupt behaviour."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
"Britain is an international outlier in how reliant our system is on blunt cash payments," said Joe Shalam, policy director at the think tank.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
His song was loaded with the blunt, sarcastic humor soldiers used to get through their days, following orders that didn’t always make sense.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
A walk after dinner, meaning 10 to 20 minutes of light movement, already consistently blunts unhealthy post-meal glucose spikes.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
Every shipment that makes it across the desert blunts the pressure from a closed strait and gives Gulf governments room to wait out the negotiations and shift the balance of power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
They used to come all in one day but as time goes by they are more widely spaced and, to some extent, time blunts the edges.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
"The problem is that most evidence shows metformin blunts exercise benefits."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2025
You may say that routine blunts the faculties,--but, for the most part, it only seems to do so.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
The beta mom backlash is a response to several converging realities: A blunter cultural dialogue around maternal mental health that has stripped the glamour from “having it all,” and a shifting economic landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
They were, to be blunter than that, living beyond their means.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Peter Arensburger, a fellow Democrat who also lives in Riverside, was blunter still.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2025
The voters guide statement against the library, written by three other library opponents, is even blunter: “This public library is an irretrievably compromised entity, and it needs to be removed from our midst.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
Later, testifying at Oppenheimer’s security trial, he delivered a blunter assessment: “Pretty foggy thinking,” he called it.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
“It bears emphasizing that war is among the bluntest instruments available to policymakers—economic or military,” Singh writes.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
In the bluntest language possible, it explained just how dangerous this was.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
It was, in the bluntest terms, a story about some attempts to help save the world … through initiatives with impenetrably bureaucratic names, like “the Western Resource Adequacy Program.”
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023
He was bluntest in speaking of the war in Ukraine.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2022
Drawing her hand through my arm, I patted it softly, and again I declared myself the bluntest of speakers.
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill
Research from Florida State University shows that some people with bulimia have a blunted release of the naturally occurring GLP-1 hormone, which the drugs seek to mimic, after eating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
To this point, age has not blunted Messi's ability.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
High levels of debt, narrowing profit margins, and concerns tied to circular financing arrangements among the sector’s biggest players have also blunted performance over the final weeks of the year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025
"Metformin blunted that observation, suggesting one type of exercise intensity is not better either with the drug for blood vessel health."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2025
It made him proud to observe that twenty- nine months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The outage at QatarEnergy, the world’s largest LNG exporter, has in turn knocked offline the No. 1 global supplier of helium, while blunting regional fertilizer exports and jolting aluminum production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
Both are likely to weigh on margins and cashflows, potentially blunting performance in what remains the market’s most important cohort.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
"Even before the tumors were palpable, we see about a 40 or 50% blunting of this corticosterone rhythm," he said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2026
Thousands of votes had already been cast by the time Jones’ texts emerged, blunting some of the effect of the scandal.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025
He pronounced the words lazily, blunting the t’s to d’s so that it sounded like “siddle lister.”
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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