numb

In a police interview played to the court, the girl said she was in "panic mode" and felt numb and weak.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

When people are more dissociated, “they may describe feeling numb, being on ‘autopilot,’ ” Brand says.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

At this point most of us are numb to the dystopian possibilities.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

John’s left arm had atrophied, his hand now basically a claw, and two of his fingers were numb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

I feel numb as she pulls me along.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Alexander Zverev says he has been "annoyed" by the reaction to him becoming world number one.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

It hit economies in a number of ways, such as through lower agricultural production in fire-hit areas and disrupted goods transport on rivers where water levels fell to record lows.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Friday’s October jobs report is not expected to be strong, but the number of jobs created each month has steadily come down over the past year.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

It currently has approximately 130 employees, a number that co-founder and Chief Executive Yoav Regev expects to double within the next 12 to 18 months as AI—and the need to secure it—grows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

I found myself thinking through the conversation again, wondering who this person was, where they were located, and how they’d gotten a wrong number from their Rachel.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

As Helena Fitzgerald wrote, "It is the kind of food that numbs pain and softens edges, turning a sharp and bitter world toward small, sense-based pleasures."

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 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

And right at the moment when the realization reaches his brain and numbs his body that he’s probably seen Fizz et al without hijabs, I reach over and grab my camera.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

For most of my life, the era of American gate-keeping faced by that generation of Chinese immigrants lingered like an old scar—painful to contemplate, but numbed and faded by the passage of time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

He might be a clout-seeking artist, or a symbol of numbed humanity?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

In his sermon during Saturday night's Easter vigil, the pontiff urged believers not to feel numbed by the scale of global conflicts but to work actively for reconciliation.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026

The numbed stage: The only cease-fire is in the markets.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

The reality of her words filtered through, and the tingly magic of what had just happened between us numbed out.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

The numbing lidocaine was injected first and sprayed down my windpipe, making me feel as if I were drowning.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

This is unfortunate, and not just because it affects the viewing experience, which is as numbing as a winter at Fort Ticonderoga.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

But sometime over this last winter — that numbing, hoary stretch between mid-February and March — I decided this might be the year to reclaim a bit of seasonal delight.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

"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

Then, in September and October, there were more developments on the legal and personal front that underscored the numbing effect, the purgatory.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel