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sensation

[sen-sey-shuhn] / sɛnˈseɪ ʃən /




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A declaration from basketball’s greatest sensation that he has limits, and won’t be provoked, poked, and pushed around.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

It can include seizures or changes in thinking, speech, vision, strength, sensation or balance.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

For years, scientists have searched for ways to move beyond prosthetic limbs and toward treatments capable of restoring natural movement, sensation, and function.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

Released last June, “KPop Demon Hunters” is a bona fide global sensation, a status that not even Netflix, its distributor, anticipated.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

“It was a sickening sensation to feel the decks breaking up under one’s feet, the great beams bending and then snapping with a noise like heavy gun-fire,” he wrote later in his diary.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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