numbing
Example Sentences
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When supplied in large quantities, they can have a numbing effect.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
"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
The numbing power of its voice seemed directed somewhere else.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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