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- noun Plural form of
brunt .
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Examples
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Climate change was bearing its worst brunts to date.
Joe Solomon: Reflecting on 2011 -- The Year Online Organizers Got Real Joe Solomon 2010
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Climate change was bearing its worst brunts to date.
Joe Solomon: Reflecting on 2011 -- The Year Online Organizers Got Real Joe Solomon 2010
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His newspapers bore many brunts due to its policy of slash criticism against the government that stopped its advertisements-the major source of local and regional newspapers.
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That of Lehman Brothers should still await further investigation before anyone at the top should suffer the brunts of the law.
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It is no wonderwhyMicrosoft owner Bill Gates has decided todecentralize his operations to Canada than suffer the brunts of a limited H1B visas, which makesit doubly difficult for his company to hirecomputer workers from Asia.
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Flaws in the legal system are a common complaint among the victims who have to suffer the brunts of enduring it first in prison before any legal remedies are introduced.
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The brunts of Saturday's attacks have focused on southern Beirut though which is Hezbollah's power base.
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Launcelot traced and traversed, and covered himself with his shield, and kept his might and his braide during three hours; and that while Sir Gawaine gave him many sad brunts, and many sad strokes, that all the knights that beheld Sir Launcelot marvelled how that he might endure him; but full little understood they that travail that Sir Launcelot had for to endure him.
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It is an heroic, self-sacrificing, and small platoon which in every age brunts Fate, and, fighting on the shadowy frontier, makes conquests from the realm of darkness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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Other brunts I also look for, but this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.
The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 500-599 1909
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