narcotized
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The audience necessary to sustain original and ambitious work is narcotized by algorithms or distracted by doomscrolling.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
Alongside the legendary Port Arthur duo UGK, rappers like Z-Ro, Lil’ Keke, Lil’ Troy, Paul Wall, and Lil’ Flip concocted a narcotized bang and sparkle that one can still hear in hip-hop.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
Sometimes it seems to me that young people are, indeed, entirely too quiet, too narcotized by gadgets, games and irrelevancies to notice the world is going to heck around them.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2014
We are a lazy and narcotized culture and it is hard to not just go to sleep.
From Salon ● May 10, 2013
She might have been some ancient oracle reciting her credo, and she seemed to have narcotized that magnetic current that had always vibrated between them.
From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
