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Before the listed contests were fought, the gladiators may have held informal warm-up matches, using blunted or dummy weapons – some munera, however, may have used blunted weapons throughout.

Another Democratic strategist suggested that Biden’s dominance within the party has blunted others’ confidence in their electoral prospects.

The policy blunted the technology’s potential for accountability in other ways.

After heavy rains, they sometimes found baby dragons washed up on rocks nearby: slender and sinuous with blunted snouts, frilled throats and nearly translucent pink skin.

But as new variants evolved and both vaccines and repeated waves of infection blunted the threat of the virus, the official symptom list grew.

Dr Head commented: "The vaccines, along with use of medicines and diagnostics etc., have massively blunted the public health impact of COVID-19.

In a potential clash to decide the table-topper, Manipur blunted Bengal’s challenge 3-1 in a Pool H contest of the 14th Hockey India senior National men’s championship at the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium here on Saturday.

It is rare that Australia's attack is blunted, certainly at home.

Neither of the Yorkshiremen were troubled as they blunted any possibility of the early wickets that would have got West Indies back in the game.

Pools were largely blunted in Saturday's stalemate with Southend but supporters will be hoping Khan might be the man to take some of the load off 21-goal frontman Mani Dieseruvwe.

The new data shows the extent to which these laws have blunted the effects of the bans.

In the desktop, at least, AMD’s rise has been slightly blunted.

This is because their immune systems become blunted with age and struggle to mount a powerful response to infection.

Back with the Bianconeri, but with Ronaldo now the spearhead, there doesn’t appear to be room (again, not a fat joke) for a blunted Higuain.

Dell Technologies Inc. lowered its annual revenue forecast after component shortages from supplier Intel Corp. blunted growth prospects despite buoyant corporate demand for new personal computers.

More so, since with higher educational attainment, the disadvantage associated with caste is blunted, as PRICE data shows.

Others had been ripped off, their slim lines blunted with browning ends.

They said their careers had been blunted, they felt marginalized in meetings, and endured other forms of sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

A judge wants the points of kitchen knives to be rounded and blunted to reduce the number of young men dying from stab wounds in street attacks.

He forged for them the weapons of nonviolence that withstood and blunted the ferocity of segregation.