sensation
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In the mid-2000s, “Dateline NBC” correspondent Chris Hansen became a national sensation for his hidden-camera sting show, “To Catch a Predator.”
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The 32-year-old two-way Japanese sensation also won’t be dealing from the mound again this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Fouzi Lekjaa, head of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation and a senior politician who works in the finance ministry, has emerged as the kingdom's newest political sensation - and a definite heavyweight.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
After five hours of a painless electric tickling sensation, he had a fresh arm, and he was sent back out into battle.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
She looked down and waggled a claw, as if trying to make sense of the sensation.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The mind learns that disconnecting can allow a person to get space from the sensations, emotions, or experiences that are painful or overwhelming.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
"I've never felt these sensations ever in my life", he told CBS News, BBC News's US partner.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The term refers to the difficulty of explaining how electrical and chemical activity in the brain gives rise to subjective experience, including sensations, emotions, thoughts, and the personal feeling of being alive.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
What used to be thought of as the attendant physical sensations of life—occasional fast heart beat, quick breath, shakiness when something goes wrong—is now some kind of clinical condition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Whatever truths she’d hit on were secondary to the immediate sensations: the headache, the singed throat.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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