numb
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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
"I really have gone numb," fitness trainer Elaheh from Ahvaz told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
He recounts how he used his Arsenal fandom to find acceptance at school, to escape from his parents’ divorce and to numb the pain of breakups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
With the final ounce of strength she had, her mind already muddled from the cold, her fingers numb, Seven pulled the ceramic bird from her cloak pocket, brought it to her mouth, and blew.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
If everything we just witnessed made one such war 0.2% less likely, FIFA’s $17.2 billion is the smaller number.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
That’s the highest number since 1991, and more cases in just the past two years than in every previous year since the turn of the century combined.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Since mid-May, the number of cases tracked by the CDC has increased to more than 11,000 across 41 states.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
And they had a number of things in common.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
First, his Rachel had given him the wrong number.
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
The local anaesthetic numbs the nerves in the short term.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 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
I don’t know because the red is so hot it numbs me.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
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
"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
“We are numbed by the science, puzzled by jargon, paralyzed by predictions, confused about what actions to take, stressed as we scramble to care for our family, or simply impoverished, overworked, and tired,” Hawken writes.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2025
I took off my glove and groped in my pocket with my numbed fingers.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
"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
That’s the only explanation for the numbing lack of thrills or chills or dread in Osgood Perkins’ “The Monkey.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
His sodden robes weighed him down as he walked in deeper; now the water was over his knees, and his rapidly numbing feet were slipping over silt and flat, slimy stones.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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