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The frustration and anger from the stands came after a 1-0 defeat which included a goalkeeping howler by Lukas Hornicek, a red card for substitute Jacob Ramsey and another blunt attacking performance.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

But in private, some senior European officials are more blunt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Estrangement, fear of illness, an unresolved family saga, emotional anxiety and, yes, blunt avoidance can lead to hurtful behavior.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Fontes, Arizona’s secretary of state, was blunt about his feelings regarding working with Andersen and CISA, according to several of the people on the call.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Jake turned the globe again and pressed his blunt, grimy thumb on a carefully selected spot.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Ordinary companies suffer when executives leave, but the corporate form blunts the impact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

Manufacturer Novo Nordisk says the once-a-day tablet could be more convenient for some people than injecting themselves weekly with GLP-1 medication that blunts appetite.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

"The problem is that most evidence shows metformin blunts exercise benefits."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2025

Again, the desire for salience often blunts the student’s sense of the real character of the forms he is rounding out.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

"Order the food. Skip the bill," says the site., external Its slogan is blunter: "The food never comes - but the dopamine does."

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie captured the crowd’s attention at the American Enterprise Institute-sponsored summit by offering the bluntest pitch of all.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023

What Sullivan has left behind is the bluntest of warnings.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

He was bluntest in speaking of the war in Ukraine.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2022

His epithets are of the bluntest and are without modulation.

From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee

JetBlue Airways recorded a bigger loss in the second quarter stemming from higher jet fuel prices, though it blunted about half of that damage with higher fares and strong customer demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

With this intimate, painful epiphany, the show’s larger parable about obligingly submitting to ahistorical ignorance is blunted with a spiritually benevolent ideal.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 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

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

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

“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

“Don’t you want Granny to live with us?” she asked, blunting my question.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright