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Some might experience depression as anger, crying often, or feeling guilty, numb or hopeless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Less common symptoms include a cold, numb leg or a cough.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Murray said he felt "numb" after hearing from families affected by the scandal.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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

It was, indeed, bitterly cold, so cold that Rowan's flesh first stung and then grew numb.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Flock opponents held rallies in 44 states, while a number of towns—including two in Massachusetts in the past few days alone—said they would stop using the cameras.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Chelsea, meanwhile, are looking to sanction a number of sales and loan departures before the transfer deadline on 1 September, and currently have 39 senior players on their books.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

That fund already reached the maximum number of applicants, according to the Orange County United Way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Officials said they expected that number to rise as firefighters were able to get to the interior of the fire.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

One day the paper announced that coupon number four was good for pork sausage.

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

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

Director Peyton Reed’s effort often numbs and overwhelms with too-flashy effects, an abundance of characters and head-shaking, multi-army battles that will require frame-by-frame analysis to ever possibly appreciate the visual complexities.

From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023

It's the coldness of the snow, yes, but whatever mix of herbal juices my mother has added numbs, as well.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

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 steady clatter of the machine numbed my nerves.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

We all know the feeling of doom-scrolling, the mindless numbing of the brain.

From BBC ● May 23, 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

This numbing and inescapable truth gives a unique urgency to Mr. Rosolie’s “Junglekeeper.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

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