Example Sentences
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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
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
They used to come all in one day but as time goes by they are more widely spaced and, to some extent, time blunts the edges.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
"The problem is that most evidence shows metformin blunts exercise benefits."
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025
Thus one effect of light upon the eye is to render it less sensitive, and light of any particular colour falling upon the eye blunts its appreciation of that colour.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
