desensitize

Example Sentences

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Anyeji says that the sender might be desensitized or numb to the disturbing content, which is also a sign of the sender’s traumatic distress, which they may unknowingly be passing along.

From Los Angeles Times

And it is not simply that Elizabethans were desensitized, possessed of a different threshold for disgust.

From Scientific American

"We don't want people to ultimately become desensitized to this," Farrah said.

From Reuters

“You kind of become desensitized to it after awhile,” left guard Andrew Vorhees joked.

From Los Angeles Times

The rare vocal complaints of a Christen Press fell on such deaf and “desensitized” ears that as late as 2019 — long after the exposure of the Larry Nassar scandal, mind you — top U.S.

From Washington Post