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In December, Vanity Fair published interviews with Wiles in which she gave a blunt - and occasionally unflattering - assessment of her time working in the Trump White House.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

While higher borrowing costs typically help tackle inflation by depressing demand in an economy, observers argue it won't do much to blunt the impacts of the current oil supply shock.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

I asked why she was so blunt with people about their chances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

She'd gotten her hair cut into a thick, blunt flip that swung easily when she moved her head.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

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

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

Thus one effect of light upon the eye is to render it less sensitive, and light of any particular colour falling upon the eye blunts its appreciation of that colour.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall

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

Peter Arensburger, a fellow Democrat who also lives in Riverside, was blunter still.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 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

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

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

He was bluntest in speaking of the war in Ukraine.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2022

For he chatted about the place, the contents of the rock-pools, and the various weeds, and ended in the bluntest way by holding out his hand.

From The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn

But a separate appointment blunted the shock, and for some, is sending mixed signals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

As well as Mr. Jagger sings, the band’s musical edge has been blunted by time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

High levels of debt, narrowing profit margins, and concerns tied to circular financing arrangements among the sector’s biggest players have also blunted performance over the final weeks of the year.

From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025

Penny’s lance descended just in time for its blunted point to brush his shoulder; his own lance wobbled as he brought it down and banged it noisily off a comer of her shield.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

They are World War I letter openers, made from scrap wood or by blunting the edge of a military blade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

“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

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