blunt
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Liuzzo’s son Anthony was more blunt, saying we have lost the “protections” for our democracy “that my mother’s blood gave us.”
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 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
Sturdy demand and higher fares helped Delta blunt the impact of what it called its highest quarterly fuel costs in history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"At the moment, it's a very blunt process," Brennan said.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
She got a new haircut recently; she has blunt bangs and long layers now.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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
The outrageous comedy of "Joan Is Awful" blunts whatever disquietude we may feel about the episode.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2023
In prison, where each officer believes that his life is in constant danger, the keeper tends to become callous, the sense of that danger blunts his higher qualities.
From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Osborne, Thomas Mott
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
Sprat was even blunter: getting rid of the tyranny of the ancients simply involved throwing out what he called ‘the rubbish’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
“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
They went, and, as they went, remorselessly dissected, with the bluntest instruments, her motives and her sentiments.
From The Literary Sense by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
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
Yet, as excited as those artists were to support their industry comrades, their efforts were repeatedly blunted by the Globes’ worst impulses.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
Data from Bank of America, in fact, indicates that each time a 10-month rally of 10% or more was blunted by a November pullback, S&P 500 gains for December averaged around 4.1%.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
The visit blunted the feeling of loneliness in him so that when he said good-bye he was at peace with himself once more.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Historically, blockades were primarily designed to damage an enemy’s economy by blunting its ability to export.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 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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