numb
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"I was numb by that point," Desborough said.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
My arms ached, my fingers were numb, and my head felt as if it were filled with hot pitch.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
They will be changing the way their number nine plays.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
She wrote a number of books, including ones about her life on tour, cookbooks and children’s books about her life and about the dangers of bullying.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Environmental groups decried the lost clean power and jobs, which Bonta said would number over 170,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
As such, when I saw that Crystal Palace had the lowest number of subscribers on its subreddit of any side in the league, I felt a natural kinship.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 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
"Anything stronger than Belle-rose numbs the blood, Your Highness. The arcana will not work."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
While precise counts of how many people numbed their buns through that double feature aren’t available, there’s no question that millions of us committed to the bit.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025
She said: “It's only when they've been numbed and they see the actual device coming out and they feel it prodded in their skin, do they realise what's actually going on?”
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
The pain made him gasp, but he eased on some of Vola’s salve and took deep breaths until it numbed.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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
This is unfortunate, and not just because it affects the viewing experience, which is as numbing as a winter at Fort Ticonderoga.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
But sometime over this last winter — that numbing, hoary stretch between mid-February and March — I decided this might be the year to reclaim a bit of seasonal delight.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
“And if he persisted in his claims that he needed no numbing agent?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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