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These actions are a body blow to what remains of the postwar global trading rules.
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Wally Adeyemo, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Potential price spikes would deliver a body blow to California motorists, who already pay the highest average price per gallon of gasoline in the country.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2025
But the body blows to Netanyahu’s reputation should not be underestimated.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
The leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed, Iranian state television reported, in a major body blow to Tehran’s governing theocracy and an immediate escalation of the nations’ long-simmering conflict.
—Jon Gambrell, Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2025
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Wally Adeyemo, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Potential price spikes would deliver a body blow to California motorists, who already pay the highest average price per gallon of gasoline in the country.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2025
But the body blows to Netanyahu’s reputation should not be underestimated.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
The leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed, Iranian state television reported, in a major body blow to Tehran’s governing theocracy and an immediate escalation of the nations’ long-simmering conflict.
—Jon Gambrell, Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2025
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“Body blow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20blow. Accessed 1 Sep. 2025.
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