anesthetized

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Bogdan fears that by cleaning up Meridian Hill Park -- which is managed and maintained by the National Park Service -- its history as a place of Black protest and community will be anesthetized.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Those latter respondents have presumably been anesthetized, never set foot in the real world or live in a permanent, chemically induced stupor.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025

Proulx found something similar in 2018, when he and colleagues injected tracer dyes into the cisterna magna and found they entered the systemic blood more quickly in awake mice than anesthetized ones.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2024

Control rats ate regular food and were anesthetized, but had no surgery.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024

To reduce the pain, they anesthetized his throat.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore