deaden
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The evening signaled that this is not the type of show that will deaden an artist behind glass vitrines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
The biggest is the ball and the size of the stitches, Nathan said, and MLB made slight adjustments to deaden the ball prior to the 2021 season.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
I’m to the point of considering bringing in a speaker to deaden their noise or broadcast an offensive podcast at them.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023
There is always a narrative risk when recapitulating events in historical fiction — predetermination can deaden the pulse.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
I shake my hand to deaden the pain.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
He suffered two near-fatal poisonings in 2015 and 2017 and developed polyneuropathy, a condition that deadens the feeling in his limbs.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
But as a series of historic droughts deadens vast expanses of South America, he fears a worsening water crisis could do what other calamities couldn’t: Bust his third-generation agribusiness.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021
And, I find Charles Yu a wonder — it’s so difficult to engage in structural experimentation and metafictional play that intensifies rather than deadens emotional resonance.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
Lyndall Gordon’s endured a “boredom that deadens the air around my father”.
From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018
I find myself pawing at my left ear periodically, trying to clean away whatever deadens its ability to collect sounds.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
For others, stop-start has deadened the joy of driving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
It’s pleasant to type on, thanks to each key’s even and clear sound signature, lacking ping or hollowness — though some may find it overly deadened.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2022
Some in baseball believe the ball has somehow been deadened, muting scoring and offensive statistics across the league.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022
Nothing but fancy hotels, voices deadened by plush carpeting and marble, and the endless pas de deux between me and the polite server just to get the damn drink from her tray to my lips.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2019
His senses, which he had deadened during his ardent Samana years, were again awakened.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
The Black Hawk helicopter was ready for take off – its rotor blades slicing through the air in the deadening heat of the Colombian Amazon.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
The decision still means joy or despair, but the virtual nature of acceptance and rejection, the evidence of no human hand, is a little deadening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Likewise, many well-known geniuses like Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, who were chased out of Europe by the Nazis, brilliantly exposed the hypocrisies and soul deadening conformity of mainstream American culture.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
Yet serious hurt that goes unacknowledged leads to the accumulation of resentment and a deadening of the relationship.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
The tone in his voice was flat and deadening and frankly starting to scare me a little.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
