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Treasury Minister Alan Maclean said cutting fuel duty would be a "blunt tool"

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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

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

In doing all this, James is also determined to unwind the cliches of gay fiction: the tragic victim, the heartwarming gestures of solidarity, the blunt porniness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

This is why Mom used to add “bike helmet” to the storm list when she was little—a mattress over the bathtub only protects so far from blunt force trauma.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

First, it blunts our feeling of the greatness 292 of Antony’s fall from prosperity.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Her nose is blunted at the end, a bit too short for her face.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The outage at QatarEnergy, the world’s largest LNG exporter, has in turn knocked offline the No. 1 global supplier of helium, while blunting regional fertilizer exports and jolting aluminum production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Both are likely to weigh on margins and cashflows, potentially blunting performance in what remains the market’s most important cohort.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 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

Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini