numb
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"I was numb by that point," Desborough said.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Former matchmaker Lily Womble says she has seen daters over-emphasize the data, causing them to minimize or numb the feelings they get in the presence of a potential partner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Less common symptoms include a cold, numb leg or a cough.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“We feel the need to humanize Iranians because Americans are used to seeing all those lands as numbers or rubble or desert, and that makes us numb to what happens there,” Wilson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
My fingers grew numb, and the numbness spread sluggishly up my limbs, flowing through my bloodstream.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
There are some 14,000 hydrogen cars registered in California, and that number declined for the first time last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Langley told a TED audience in April that the misuse of the company’s technology was “a trade-off I can make” compared to the number of investigations he said it assists with.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
The show ran until 2010 and earned a number of awards and nominations, including Emmys and Golden Globes.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“You do not need to acquire all three; you can acquire any number of them, so long as each replacement property you acquire is among the identified properties.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Leaving a sizable number of bills in the mailbox seems ill-advised, but I don’t want to have to make a third trip to this house.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
So perhaps it’s fitting that the most recent addition to this sad subgenre is the numbest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
“It might be that we’re killing it, or that’s it’s slowly dying because we’re reducing it to its numbest form, but I don’t think that has to be,” she said.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2019
Relationships falter because videogames get in the way, and life dissolves into a virtual reality that numbs the pain meant to drive our growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
If the flood numbs Americans to crises and catastrophes that comprise daily life in other parts of the world, can you blame us?
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
The local anaesthetic numbs the nerves in the short term.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
The native of Puebla, Mexico, suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and rheumatoid arthritis, which sometimes numbs the joints in his hands, making it difficult to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
And right at the moment when the realization reaches his brain and numbs his body that he’s probably seen Fizz et al without hijabs, I reach over and grab my camera.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Some contend that numbed investors to the threat, keeping yields and borrowing costs lower than they should have been.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The numbed stage: The only cease-fire is in the markets.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
“We are numbed by the science, puzzled by jargon, paralyzed by predictions, confused about what actions to take, stressed as we scramble to care for our family, or simply impoverished, overworked, and tired,” Hawken writes.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2025
She said: “It's only when they've been numbed and they see the actual device coming out and they feel it prodded in their skin, do they realise what's actually going on?”
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
Almost deliberately, I’d numbed myself somewhat to my ambition, stepping back in moments when I’d normally step forward.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
But such incidents have become increasingly commonplace to the point of numbing us.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Merely a gray leather couch, of a depressing aspect that almost announces a withdrawal from life and surrender to the numbing effects of long days and nights of television.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
The numbing lidocaine was injected first and sprayed down my windpipe, making me feel as if I were drowning.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
"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
I hurried, the sound drawing closer, myriad-voiced, humming, enfolding me, numbing the air, as I started beneath the ramp.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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