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desensitize

verb as in dull

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With true crime’s popularity dramatically increasing over the last 15 years, audiences have become increasingly desensitized.

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Investors have become desensitized to risk as the 2008-09 financial crisis fades from memory, Block believes.

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Mollner and Lawrence keep the story locked on the boys, never elaborating on this desensitizing idea but continuing to show us the dehumanizing torture they endure.

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I don’t want to say that’s right or wrong, but from what I’m seeing, a lot of people have become desensitized to violence.

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Dains, who previously held top shelter jobs in San José and Long Beach, said her employees were desensitized to the suffering of the animals after witnessing it day after day.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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