Synonyms for brunt
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1. brunt

   Synonyms:
   impulse, attack, aggression, onslaught, onset, assault, shock

   Antonyms:
   resistance, endurance, repulsion

Princeton's WordNet

1. bruntnoun

   main force of a blow etc

   "bore the brunt of the attack"

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1. • Force

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1. bruntnoun

   Synonyms:
   shock, heat of onset

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1. List of paraphrases for "brunt":

   weight, burden, shiner

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1. Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester:

   What public policy needs to do, and this includes the Fed, is to help ensure that the shutdown in activity that is being felt doesn't cause lasting damage to the economy, and to make sure that we give aid and relief to the employees and workers and the businesses that are bearing the brunt of that shutdown.

2. Cabot Phillips:

   The university punishes students based on how controversial or offensive their words are. Well, by nature, the most controversial ideas will be the ones that are least present, and in college campuses it’s overwhelmingly conservative ideas that are not present, so it’s going to be conservative students that are facing the brunt of this, any student, it doesn’t matter political affiliation, no student should have to fear bringing up ideas that may make people a little uncomfortable.

3. Tim Ryan:

   A lot of it is the supply chain, a lot of it is the war, i just don't think we can look working-class people in the eye and say, ‘Look, you gotta bear the brunt of this while the oil companies are making huge amounts of money, while these other corporations are making huge amounts of money.’.

4. Peter Sutton:

   There will certainly will be damage up along the coastal areas where the crossing occurred, but largely the populated areas did escape the brunt of the eye as it crossed the coast.

5. Hun Quach:

   American families shouldn't be a pawn in this trade war, today's announcement only moves us closer to consumers bearing the brunt of the pain.