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I’ll be blunt: It’s not that these loud voices aren’t experts — they are.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

“He was the most honest, most blunt coach,” Hillman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Taking the stage at Plaid Cymru's first conference in government, cabinet minister for Education Anna Brychan's assessment was more blunt than a month earlier, when the Pisa results came out.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Under its strategy, an extensive “autonomous zone” would be established so that drones and ground robots could blunt a Russian attack without extensive allied casualties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The birds were noisy in the dawn and the ranch cats came down from the hill like blunt snakes.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

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

Fruit cannot drop through this thick air— fruit cannot fall into heat that presses up and blunts the points of pears and rounds the grapes.

From Sea Garden by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Amit Yair, 77, was blunter as he waited in a long queue to order coffee.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

Imad was blunter, worried about feeding his four children.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025

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

Loewe described it as “an idea of elementality: one piece, and that’s it, reduced to the bluntest shape possible.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

He was bluntest in speaking of the war in Ukraine.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2022

Sometimes the bluntest instrument is best: an agreed-upon limit.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022

They displayed openly, with bluntest realism, all the evils that were corroding the system of their antagonists.

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz

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

China’s steady efforts to diversify its energy, especially in renewables, and building up its strategic petroleum reserves blunted the hit.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

Current and former officials say they believe the ability of Iran to control the passageway will be blunted as its military assets are diminished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Arteta has spoken previously about how chaos and attacking more directly were effective ways for Arsenal to create chances when Zubimendi's influence was blunted by being man-marked.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

The stallions slammed together, the blunted axehead smashed against the scarred blue breastplate . . . but somehow the blue knight had the haft locked between steel- gauntleted fingers.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Meanwhile, Americans have found themselves saddled with ballooning debt, further blunting the impact of income growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

That likely keeps oil and energy prices elevated well into the summer months, and possibly beyond, keeping Treasury bond yields higher and blunting the chances of a Federal Reserve rate cut.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 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

“I lose it sometimes. I cry my eyes out, for sure. I feel the full emotional impact of it, in slow motion. . . . There’s no blunting it for me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025

In the education journals of the day, there were constant worries about overtaxing students or blunting their natural abilities through too much schoolwork.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell