- past participle of desensitize.
- past tense form of desensitize.
desensitized
Example Sentences
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He explains how he believes Alcaraz’s tragic death likely came to be and how officers have become desensitized to issues afflicting America’s prisons.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
Reactions to other recent reports have been muted as well, with investors seemingly desensitized to Nvidia’s big numbers.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
Or maybe, through repeated exposure, Americans have been desensitized to the burden that unnecessary complexity imposes on us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
With true crime’s popularity dramatically increasing over the last 15 years, audiences have become increasingly desensitized.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
Rowan hadn’t thought much of it at the time, but now he understood; it stopped being gleaning the moment one became desensitized to the act.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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