numbed
Example Sentences
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The numbed stage: The only cease-fire is in the markets.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026
"We are in shock and numbed at the news this afternoon. No Garda shift is ever routine, but this one has ended in the most horrendous of circumstances."
From BBC • May 11, 2025
But for Freeman, it was a concoction of adrenaline, relief and gratitude that — at least for a little while — mostly numbed the pain in his badly sprained right ankle.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024
Rather than nourishing themselves, she continued, they choose to numb their appetites with medicine the way I once numbed my own with guilt and self-criticism.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2024
You have a bad bruise on your arm now, but the pain of that is also numbed, like every other part of your nervous system.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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