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  • past participle of numb.
  • past tense form of numb.

numbed







Example Sentences

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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

But in this numbed up, dumbed down world, it means little, is reported less and is viewed the same way most news viewers look at weather predictions – always wrong and who cares.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2024

And you sense, from Thiên’s spaced-out expression and general disinterest in the discourse, that he’s grown tired of that cacophony, which has effectively numbed him to reality.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2024

I enjoyed the feeling that I could eat, sleep and be warm, and outwit the storms that blasted the mountains and the subzero temperatures that numbed them.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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