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verb

past tense of blunt

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Recent Examples of blunted
Verb
The shift has blunted the impact of Toronto’s once-potent People’s Choice Award, a prize long seen as an awards-season springboard. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025 A week later, apart from during a bright opening quarter of an hour when Cunha was unlucky not to open the scoring, Amorim’s side were otherwise blunted by Fulham. Mark Critchley, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025 Lepers’s case study offers a test of whether the same is true in your 50s, or whether the body’s adaptive potential is so blunted that some of the losses become permanent. Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024 On a third day, exercising afterwards blunted my Lingo Count by a few points. Meg Tirrell, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024 The opening acoustic guitar plucks have plenty of low and low-mid resonance, though the string texture is blunted somewhat by weak treble. PCMAG, 21 Nov. 2024 The brigade led the Russian attack on the western edge of the Ukrainian salient last week, initially advancing several miles—and capturing those unfortunate drone operators—before Ukrainian counterattacks blunted its momentum. David Axe, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 If the cultural advantages of liberalism have given it a more pointed politics in places where politics lacks worldly consequences, its real-world politics can seem curiously blunted. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024 But the joy would soon be blunted. Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blunted
Adjective
  • Yacobi’s defense attorney, however, countered with the findings of a forensic pathologist who said Violet died from blunt force trauma consistent with a fall from a second-story balcony.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The coroner listed her cause of death as traumatic blunt force injuries and the manner of death as accidental.
    Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Citing economic pressures, the museum reduced its staff earlier this year, with a total of eight positions affected either by layoffs or a reduction in pay and benefits.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Dementia risk could be dramatically reduced with one common health intervention, a study finds.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • My sleep was fractured, my health declined, my decisions dulled, and my confidence wavered.
    Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Time hasn’t dulled the impact of the Evija’s design.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • With four weeks of consistent use, our tester’s dark spots were diminished, and her skin looked even-toned and healthy.
    Esme Benjamin, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Now, with the rise of summaries and instant answers, their impact on driving actual site traffic has diminished.
    Noa Eshed, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The problem is that what gets cut isn’t always cosmetic, and sometimes the very safeguards designed to block harmful outputs, such as hate speech or criminal instructions, are weakened or lost.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the latest jobs report confirmed that the labor market weakened sharply over the spring and summer and that sectors most affected by tariffs have seen the biggest losses.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Guiducci arrives at a moment when some of that anger has subsided, and the punch-drunk culture seems counterintuitively eager to escape into nostalgia and tastemaking, splashy profiles, and — just sometimes — confrontational journalism.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Employees said the mold problem still hadn’t subsided as of early this year.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But her athletic triumph was tragically dampened by years of abuse at the hands of her husband and coach Jim Martin, who in 2010 attempted to murder her, stabbing her many times, slicing the flesh off the bone from her leg, and shooting her.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Inputs that arrive in sync with the rhythm are amplified, while those that come at the wrong moment are dampened or ignored.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The New York Federal Reserve’s measure of Global Supply Chain Pressure showed that July’s level of stress decreased, and is approximately now equal to the long-term average.
    George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Local businesses in affected neighborhoods report decreased foot traffic and lower sales amid the atmosphere of uncertainty.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Blunted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blunted. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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