deaden
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Not that anyone reading the signs needs to attempt to blunt or deaden anything.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
The biggest is the ball and the size of the stitches, Nathan said, and MLB made slight adjustments to deaden the ball prior to the 2021 season.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
With her red-lipped rictus grin, her eyes that can beam with earnestness one minute and deaden with murderous resignation the next, Goth makes a sublime demon, but she’s also a creature of irreducible pathos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
“Combine that with his ability to soften the hands and deaden the contact,” Annacone wrote, “and you have terrific ingredients to execute that deft touch.”
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
I shake my hand to deaden the pain.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
And the unique geology of the city of Kyiv, built on wetlands and flood plains, deadens signals from explosions, researchers say.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
And, I find Charles Yu a wonder — it’s so difficult to engage in structural experimentation and metafictional play that intensifies rather than deadens emotional resonance.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
While I respect their sense of history and their desire for universal standards, I resist such declarations when they fossilize into something that deadens inspiration.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2019
Lyndall Gordon’s endured a “boredom that deadens the air around my father”.
From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018
I find myself pawing at my left ear periodically, trying to clean away whatever deadens its ability to collect sounds.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
For others, stop-start has deadened the joy of driving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
It’s pleasant to type on, thanks to each key’s even and clear sound signature, lacking ping or hollowness — though some may find it overly deadened.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2022
Perhaps it’s the Rawlings baseballs, which were slightly deadened this year in a change MLB said an independent lab found would cause balls to fly 1 to 2 feet shorter when hit over 375 feet.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2021
Nothing but fancy hotels, voices deadened by plush carpeting and marble, and the endless pas de deux between me and the polite server just to get the damn drink from her tray to my lips.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2019
The sherry had sharpened his anxiety rather than deadened it.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Black Hawk helicopter was ready for take off – its rotor blades slicing through the air in the deadening heat of the Colombian Amazon.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
She then delivered a speech that denounced the notion of cultural appropriation and its deadening effects on literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
Likewise, many well-known geniuses like Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, who were chased out of Europe by the Nazis, brilliantly exposed the hypocrisies and soul deadening conformity of mainstream American culture.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
We already know you can kill what’s up on-screen, deadening us with your storytelling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
The ice ball exploded, spraying his entire body with freezing, paralyzing streams of water, weighing down his arms, deadening his legs, squeezing his heart.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
