blunt
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Canada has responded by taking a deliberately blunt approach.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Ten years ago, we were a blunt instrument,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Instead of being blunt, he presents constellations of ideas that provide a stream-of-consciousness experience, where signs, symbols, objects, colors and emotions all compete for attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Jamil may be blunt, but her point is truer now than ever.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Twelve feet below him was a half-finished concrete wall, with rebar jutting outward like blunt skewers.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
Custom overrides nearly all, and blunts contrast of ideas, yet wit, darting here and there among men, ever finds fresh contrasts and fresh laughter.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge
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
Doug Koesel, an outspoken 72-year-old priest at Blessed Trinity Parish in Cleveland, was blunter: “They’re just waiting for us to die.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
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
Increasingly, candidates make clear where they stand in the bluntest of ways, said Lytton, the Georgia State professor.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
The whole company now assembled around the farmer, whose position was apparent to the bluntest hind that ever danced at a Maiden.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
Research from Florida State University shows that some people with bulimia have a blunted release of the naturally occurring GLP-1 hormone, which the drugs seek to mimic, after eating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
To this point, age has not blunted Messi's ability.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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
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
Judging by the blunted ends of metal rods, it used to have railings, but it doesn’t anymore.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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
By the time the Fed raised interest rates, he had already locked in trillions of dollars in support for the labor market, blunting the potential damage from higher rates.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2024
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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