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I struggled to turn over control of newborn activities, often pushing myself to an overwhelming state of exhaustion, pPD blunted my ability to bond with my newborn — and I felt like I could make up for this by doing it all. – Caroline Scherbring	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Burnout looks very different than stress, it's where you're disillusioned, underwhelmed, and the term is' blunted,' where you're emotionally just flat. Nothing really fazes you anymore. – Jeanie Chang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It depends how we respond, if public health is charged with investigating what's going on, and takes actions, makes recommendations, and we take actions based on that, then the rise will be blunted somewhat. – Scott Gottlieb	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We think the diet sodas may be bad because they make it hard to deal with the sugar you are consuming, when the animals get real sugar they’re not as good at processing it, their hormonal responses get blunted, their blood sugar levels go up and it leads to weight gain. – Susan Swithers	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Tourney, the true form of jousting, is open combat between large groups of people in fields — basically, a mock battle, they just laid into each other with blunted weapons, which is another reason we think he might be a knight, because none of the wounds to him are caused by sharp weapons. They're all caused by blunt-force trauma. – Andy Boucher	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The short-term impact of oil prices on Iran may be blunted by sanctions that already restrict the government's access to oil revenue held outside of Iran. – Jen Psaki	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Whatever momentum they had been enjoying has been halted, has been blunted. That has stayed steady over the last couple of weeks, it's very much a contested environment, but what we don't see, what we haven't seen in the last several weeks has been any renewed offensive moves. – John Kirby	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction. – Seán O'Casey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. – James Bridie	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I struggled to turn over control of newborn activities, often pushing myself to an overwhelming state of exhaustion, pPD blunted my ability to bond with my newborn — and I felt like I could make up for this by doing it all.

– Caroline Scherbring

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Burnout looks very different than stress, it's where you're disillusioned, underwhelmed, and the term is' blunted,' where you're emotionally just flat. Nothing really fazes you anymore.

– Jeanie Chang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It depends how we respond, if public health is charged with investigating what's going on, and takes actions, makes recommendations, and we take actions based on that, then the rise will be blunted somewhat.

– Scott Gottlieb

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We think the diet sodas may be bad because they make it hard to deal with the sugar you are consuming, when the animals get real sugar they’re not as good at processing it, their hormonal responses get blunted, their blood sugar levels go up and it leads to weight gain.

– Susan Swithers

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Tourney, the true form of jousting, is open combat between large groups of people in fields — basically, a mock battle, they just laid into each other with blunted weapons, which is another reason we think he might be a knight, because none of the wounds to him are caused by sharp weapons. They're all caused by blunt-force trauma.

– Andy Boucher

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The short-term impact of oil prices on Iran may be blunted by sanctions that already restrict the government's access to oil revenue held outside of Iran.

– Jen Psaki

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Whatever momentum they had been enjoying has been halted, has been blunted. That has stayed steady over the last couple of weeks, it's very much a contested environment, but what we don't see, what we haven't seen in the last several weeks has been any renewed offensive moves.

– John Kirby

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.

– Seán O'Casey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

– Miguel de Cervantes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

– James Bridie

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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