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brunt

noun as in bad end of a situation

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But few photographs better sum up the growing impact of Russia's full-scale invasion on everyday life, with Ukraine's most vulnerable now bearing the brunt, including children.

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Aleppo province and the Damascus countryside, major rebel strongholds subjected to heavy bombardment during the early years of the war, bore the brunt of the most of the destruction.

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King Lear, bearing the brunt of a storm, looks at what he thinks is a mad beggar and wonders if “unaccommodated man” is no more than “a poor, bare, forked animal.”

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More than 20,000 people have been killed in Nigeria, but Mali and Burkina Faso have borne the brunt, accounting for 56 percent of the region's victims.

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The rest of Northern Ireland will also have rain, but eastern areas are expected to bear the brunt.

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

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