insensible
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"The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, passed in 1958, requires all animals be 'rendered insensible to pain' before being shackled or killed — all animals except for poultry," she notes.
From Salon ● May 10, 2023
Yes, it’s fairly sentimental insofar as it dwells on how feelings color the world, but it’s not insensible to the gaps that feelings alone can’t fill.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021
The car is a dark conglomerate of metal, glass, and plastic, as inanimate and insensible as a stone.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
A week later, the telegraph lines clattered with news of Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre in Washington and the chilling way it was put into words by Stanton: “The president continues insensible and is sinking.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2016
Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel Aureliano Buendía could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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