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Recent Examples of bluntly
Your films deal bluntly with other volatile social issues.
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Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Henry Throp, research manager at FAIRR and lead author of the new briefing, described the challenge bluntly in an interview.
—Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Most of these are, to put it bluntly, auteur films—the works of directors displaying original artistry within the Hollywood system.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Here, Aniston’s shag appeared almost like a waterfall of layers, bluntly chopped just under her chin.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 Aug. 2025
To put it bluntly, North Korea treated the South as a state-sized ATM—especially when progressive administrations were in power.
—Andrei Lankov, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
Auman bluntly responded that the team isn't trading for the 30-year-old.
—Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Henry Throp, research manager at FAIRR and lead author of the new briefing, described the challenge bluntly in an interview.
—Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Most of these are, to put it bluntly, auteur films—the works of directors displaying original artistry within the Hollywood system.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Here, Aniston’s shag appeared almost like a waterfall of layers, bluntly chopped just under her chin.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 Aug. 2025
To put it bluntly, North Korea treated the South as a state-sized ATM—especially when progressive administrations were in power.
—Andrei Lankov, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
Auman bluntly responded that the team isn't trading for the 30-year-old.
—Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bluntly
Adverb
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Norma Torres, whose son — Kenneth Mena Torres — was among those arrested, described a jarring moment when ICE agents brusquely entered their home to scan the face of each person living there.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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However, in 2000, Burns abruptly left the show when his character went to college, passing the role down to his younger brother, Joe, played by Donovan Patton.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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The footage then cut abruptly to a new clip that featured Barrymore and Colbert holding their respective mugs and talking about her recent 50th birthday.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Instead, their only aim is to protect themselves, which is precisely how the second horseman arrives.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Controlling cavitation precisely inside the human body (without damaging nearby tissue) will be very difficult.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Bluntly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluntly. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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