numbing
Example Sentences
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Despite the name, these aren’t peppers at all but members of the citrus family that trigger a numbing, tingling sensation on the tongue.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
"Is it, in fact, unhealthy and desensitising and numbing to feel joy when we're surrounded by so much suffering?" he asks.
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025
In this way, truth-telling helps diminish psychic numbing.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
At this point, they pop up with numbing regularity.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2024
But really, it’s the slow numbing death of hopelessness that does it.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
