blunt
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Asked by The Times on Wednesday what was stopping him from demanding Venezuela set a firm election date, Trump was blunt: “I just don’t think they are ready yet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Others are more blunt and believe the current situation is unsustainable.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Europe for too long hasn’t wanted to risk speaking plainly about the threat, which makes Germany’s blunt comments this week all the more welcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
You have experienced some sharp practice, and you need a blunt approach.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
“You don’t look fine,” says Jacqui, annoyingly blunt.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
"The problem is that most evidence shows metformin blunts exercise benefits."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2025
"It also blunts any effort of hers to demonstrate momentum or score at least a symbolic victory."
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2024
He ought not, however, to repeat the same subjects so frequently, as the casting about of the mind for means of varying them blunts the feelings to truth.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
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
John Frankenheimer, who directed Kilmer in The Island of Dr Moreau, was even blunter.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 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
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
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
On the night of the same day, Robert called together the women of his household and in the bluntest words told them the strictest economy was hence-forward to be observed.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
But a separate appointment blunted the shock, and for some, is sending mixed signals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
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
But time and again the poisonous isolation that absolute power imposes on its wielders blunted the edge of their insight and degraded the capacity of their societies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
The sharp edge of his apprehensions blunted by this sudden wealth of worldly possessions.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
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
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
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
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