numb
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Less common symptoms include a cold, numb leg or a cough.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“We feel the need to humanize Iranians because Americans are used to seeing all those lands as numbers or rubble or desert, and that makes us numb to what happens there,” Wilson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
The uncertainty is weighing on everyday Iranians too, with fitness trainer Elaheh from Ahvaz telling AFP: "I really have gone numb."
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
In April 2025, Alicia-Adele Axiak, 11, from Caerphilly woke up with a slightly numb arm amid a week spent playing netball, doing gymnastics and preparing for an upcoming dance competition.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Somehow, I feel numb and like I’m on fire at the same time.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
This is the magic number that makers of everyday goods are obsessed with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
That number easily surpassed last year’s bloom, which drew about 4,900 visitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
According to Data Golf, which measures performance across all tours, only three players are ranked higher than Fleetwood - defending champion Scottie Scheffler, McIlroy and world number three Fitzpatrick.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Active inventory refers to the total number of homes listed on the market for sale versus new inventory which refers to fresh homes hitting the market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
I think I’d have to change my number if the secret got out!
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
So perhaps it’s fitting that the most recent addition to this sad subgenre is the numbest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
“It might be that we’re killing it, or that’s it’s slowly dying because we’re reducing it to its numbest form, but I don’t think that has to be,” she said.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2019
Relationships falter because videogames get in the way, and life dissolves into a virtual reality that numbs the pain meant to drive our growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
If the flood numbs Americans to crises and catastrophes that comprise daily life in other parts of the world, can you blame us?
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
The native of Puebla, Mexico, suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and rheumatoid arthritis, which sometimes numbs the joints in his hands, making it difficult to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
Director Peyton Reed’s effort often numbs and overwhelms with too-flashy effects, an abundance of characters and head-shaking, multi-army battles that will require frame-by-frame analysis to ever possibly appreciate the visual complexities.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
I don’t know because the red is so hot it numbs me.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
Some contend that numbed investors to the threat, keeping yields and borrowing costs lower than they should have been.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The numbed stage: The only cease-fire is in the markets.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
That when that final envelope was opened, we’d be on the edge of our seats... or at the very least not completely numbed to the inevitability of the winners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
Rather than nourishing themselves, she continued, they choose to numb their appetites with medicine the way I once numbed my own with guilt and self-criticism.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2024
Our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
We all know the feeling of doom-scrolling, the mindless numbing of the brain.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
The numbing lidocaine was injected first and sprayed down my windpipe, making me feel as if I were drowning.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
But this awful situation also highlights TV’s ability to unite its otherwise fractured audience, despite years of scripted and unscripted content numbing us to the worst acts people commit against one another.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026
While kids in regular public schools put in their numbing hours, students in spreading networks of classical charters get meaty reading assignments—myths, fairy tales, great books—while also memorizing sonnets and elements of America’s founding documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
I got the heater running, for once not caring about the mind- numbing roar of the engine.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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