blunted
Example Sentences
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To this point, age has not blunted Messi's ability.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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
The S&P 500 stock index has been higher than it was before the war, and the rise in oil prices has been blunted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 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 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
