bruise

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Given the cumulative impacts of inflation and renewed uncertainty around a new government shutdown, bruised consumer confidence in the U.S. could dent demand and investor sentiment.

From Barron's

Given the cumulative impacts of inflation and renewed uncertainty around a new government shutdown, bruised consumer confidence in the U.S. could dent demand and investor sentiment.

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She’s been working at it so hard the skin beneath her eyes has become blue and bruised.

From Literature

And scrapping a couple of dozen forces was "very, very bruising last time round" for Labour, one insider says.

From BBC

The summit will offer Brussels the chance to turn the page after a bruising transatlantic crisis over Greenland -- now seemingly defused.

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