desertification
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Officials have cited lack of cell phone service, no sense of the storm's intensity and public desensitisation to such alerts in the flood-prone area, as reasons some did not evacuate.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025
Julia suggests eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy, which uses movement to help people process and recover from distressing events.
From BBC • May 17, 2025
Lizanda says sharing and watching videos of black trauma can lead to distress and desensitisation.
From BBC • May 27, 2021
“Look around,” she wrote, “and there is already a kind of desensitisation to what is happening, a moral relativism that never sees women’s rights as the first rights that are under attack”.
From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2018
But I wonder if it is this desensitisation that makes images such as those Mack shared so powerful, and enables them to start such a loud and important public conversation.
From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2014
Vocabulary lists containing desertification
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Human Geography - Middle School
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