blunt
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But a combination of policy measures to blunt the inflationary impact and the impulse from AI-driven demand has so far helped manufacturing momentum stay resilient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The introduction sits right between poetic and blunt, and this same small, temporal crevice is where the Holbrooke sisters spend their time.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
US President Donald Trump has been blunt about his AI ambitions, as well as about who he considers the US's main rival to be: China.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
One U.S. official told The Times that the blunt assessment accurately reflects private thinking inside Xi’s government about the growing risks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Herr Becker has a broad, blunt face, and Helmuth notes that his eyes don't match his smile.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
The poison always blunts one’s mental faculties, especially when given in such a large dose.
From The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon
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
In the bluntest language possible, it explained just how dangerous this was.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
What Sullivan has left behind is the bluntest of warnings.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
He was bluntest in speaking of the war in Ukraine.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2022
I must confess this was the bluntest, downright way of making war that ever was seen.
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe
JetBlue Airways recorded a bigger loss in the second quarter stemming from higher jet fuel prices, though it blunted about half of that damage with higher fares and strong customer demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
But a separate appointment blunted the shock, and for some, is sending mixed signals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
With this intimate, painful epiphany, the show’s larger parable about obligingly submitting to ahistorical ignorance is blunted with a spiritually benevolent ideal.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
To this point, age has not blunted Messi's ability.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Matt could imagine him as a boy, long before the events that had blunted his nose and reamed him with scars from head to toe.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
The unusual steps are aimed at delaying an infrastructure crisis and blunting Washington’s leverage in the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 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
“Don’t you want Granny to live with us?” she asked, blunting my question.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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