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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
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Climate change was bearing its worst brunts to date.
Joe Solomon: Reflecting on 2011 -- The Year Online Organizers Got Real
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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.
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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
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