numbing
Example Sentences
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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
"Is it, in fact, unhealthy and desensitising and numbing to feel joy when we're surrounded by so much suffering?" he asks.
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025
In this way, truth-telling helps diminish psychic numbing.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
At this point, they pop up with numbing regularity.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2024
I didn’t want to stay and look at something that filled me with such a numbing terror.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
