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blunted

adjective as in dull

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The impact of a short-term shutdown on public-facing services would likely be blunted by the coronavirus pandemic, which has kept many Americans indoors and closed or restricted the operations of operations like national parks.

So far, government aid has significantly blunted financial stress for millions of Americans.

From Fortune

There are other knives out there featuring blunt tips and supposedly learner-friendly features, but in my opinion, as an avowed not-a-parent, a kid is better off learning how to handle the real thing.

If we can just hang on and do those fundamental public health measures to try and blunt some of these surges, ultimately we can get out of this.

In the bluntest possible terms — and with the utmost respect for the form — TikTok is teenagers making pouty faces and gyrating into a camera.

From Vox

American criticism, meanwhile, is blunted by the U.S. need to maintain its major military base in Qatar.

The First Amendment must not be blunted because upholding it makes a mess.

Nigel might pray to a pale Madonna; Isaacson dealt with a definitely blunted woman of the world.

California seemed less like a voluptuous leviathan blowing poppy-dust that blunted the memory of all things beyond her borders.

He was better fitted for the battle of life, but his susceptibilities and his enthusiasms were a trifle blunted.

Also the tender points of the fibres of the optic nerve would soon become blunted and the eye of course useless.

With them the body has worn out the soul, the senses have burned up the heart, dissipation has blunted the feelings.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to blunted, such as: flat, blunt, round, square, edentate, and edentulate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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