Example Sentences

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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

The outrageous comedy of "Joan Is Awful" blunts whatever disquietude we may feel about the episode.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2023

Fruit cannot drop through this thick air— fruit cannot fall into heat that presses up and blunts the points of pears and rounds the grapes.

From Sea Garden by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)