numb
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Former matchmaker Lily Womble says she has seen daters over-emphasize the data, causing them to minimize or numb the feelings they get in the presence of a potential partner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
So I hope the numb feeling goes away.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Less common symptoms include a cold, numb leg or a cough.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“We feel the need to humanize Iranians because Americans are used to seeing all those lands as numbers or rubble or desert, and that makes us numb to what happens there,” Wilson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Half of a JP hug would usually help me feel better, but I’m numb.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
The estimated number of arrests is around 2,000, he said, but many of them were for reasons that weren’t explicitly political.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Yet another number is equally impressive: Woods is 42 years old.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The number of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz was just eight on Sunday and 11 on Saturday, compared with more than 100 per day before the war began, according to Kpler.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Rescuers with backup from two Indonesian warships and a navy surveillance aircraft were searching for survivors even as estimates of the number of missing people kept changing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
I scratched on the side of the table the number of days until September 1.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
So perhaps it’s fitting that the most recent addition to this sad subgenre is the numbest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
“It might be that we’re killing it, or that’s it’s slowly dying because we’re reducing it to its numbest form, but I don’t think that has to be,” she said.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2019
Relationships falter because videogames get in the way, and life dissolves into a virtual reality that numbs the pain meant to drive our growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
If the flood numbs Americans to crises and catastrophes that comprise daily life in other parts of the world, can you blame us?
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
Mr Blake told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime show he was "totally unaware" he had been bitten as the spider numbs its prey before laying its eggs.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023
The native of Puebla, Mexico, suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and rheumatoid arthritis, which sometimes numbs the joints in his hands, making it difficult to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
"Anything stronger than Belle-rose numbs the blood, Your Highness. The arcana will not work."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Some contend that numbed investors to the threat, keeping yields and borrowing costs lower than they should have been.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The numbed stage: The only cease-fire is in the markets.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
While precise counts of how many people numbed their buns through that double feature aren’t available, there’s no question that millions of us committed to the bit.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025
Is it strange to suggest that, 35 years on, after becoming numbed by synthetic superhero kinetics, Woo’s brand of over-the-top now feels more grounded?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
Our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
Merely a gray leather couch, of a depressing aspect that almost announces a withdrawal from life and surrender to the numbing effects of long days and nights of television.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
The numbing lidocaine was injected first and sprayed down my windpipe, making me feel as if I were drowning.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
But this awful situation also highlights TV’s ability to unite its otherwise fractured audience, despite years of scripted and unscripted content numbing us to the worst acts people commit against one another.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026
"Is it, in fact, unhealthy and desensitising and numbing to feel joy when we're surrounded by so much suffering?" he asks.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
He rubs a numbing ointment on one of the deeper cuts, keeping his attention fixed on my wounds.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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