deaden
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The evening signaled that this is not the type of show that will deaden an artist behind glass vitrines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
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
I’m to the point of considering bringing in a speaker to deaden their noise or broadcast an offensive podcast at them.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023
There is always a narrative risk when recapitulating events in historical fiction — predetermination can deaden the pulse.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
After bandaging them neatly she had administered a potion that would deaden the pain and induce sleep.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
But La Nina pretty much deadens shear, which is “a huge factor” for more storm activity, University of Albany hurricane researcher Kristen Corbosiero said.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022
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
Lyndall Gordon’s endured a “boredom that deadens the air around my father”.
From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018
Toradol, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory often used to manage short-term postoperative pain, deadens feeling and inhibits the body’s ability to sense injury.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2017
It is hardly consoling to remember such a feeling, and so it deadens in our minds.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
The league’s hope was that a deadened ball would cut down on home runs and increase action in the field of play.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
“We cannot remain insensitive, our hearts deadened, before the misery of so many innocent people. We must not fail to weep. We must not fail to respond.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2019
We are deadened by the strain—a deadly tension that scrapes along one’s spine like a gapped knife.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
The decision still means joy or despair, but the virtual nature of acceptance and rejection, the evidence of no human hand, is a little deadening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 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
But it also has a deadening clockwork quality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 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
