Example Sentences

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Those shipments are blunting Putin’s attempts to weaponize food shortages, relaxing inflationary pressures and allowing Ukraine to generate badly needed revenue.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

Large numbers of retiring workers are blunting growth of the labor force.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2017

But divisions among rebel leaders are blunting their challenge to Gaddafi and could unnerve foreign powers banking on them as a credible alternative government, according to analysts.

From Reuters • May 11, 2011

They are blunting their higher feelings by repeating incongruous and nauseating figures of being "washed in blood," or they are carelessly singing sentiments they do not understand.

From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick

We do this, we irresponsible parents and teachers, because we ourselves lack imagination, and do not see that we are blunting, instead of sharpening, our human tool.

From The Reconstructed School by Pearson, Francis B.