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brunt [brʌnt] N no pl

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to bear [or take] the brunt of sth
etw am stärksten zu spüren bekommen

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By early 2008, financial problems at the station began to mount, with the news bearing the brunt of the blame.
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Guy is humiliated and forced to bear the brunt of his insults.
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The manufactured piece of aluminum covered the nose, forehead and rested on the cheekbones to bear the brunt of blows.
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As chief financial administrator, he bore the brunt of the chronicler's condemnations for extortion and efforts to increase royal revenues.
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Whatever meager rations remained were sent to the troops fighting the war, so the civilian population faced the brunt of the famine.
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The attack took the army by surprise and the brunt of the attack came down on the right flank.
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That season, the show's scripts called for her to be the brunt of fat jokes from her television brothers for many episodes in a row.
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These insurers underwrite their commercial losses to reinsurers, who will again bear the brunt of these claims.
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Smith, who was in the passenger seat, probably with her right arm or elbow out the window, took the full brunt of the impact.
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When working with a group of allies, an adamantine dragon does nt hesitate to bear the brunt of enemies' attacks.
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