supersensitive

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Add in a requirement to keep paying out through good times and bad and the approach weeds out businesses supersensitive to the economic cycle or in sectors prone to disruption.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“He loved those sunglasses. He has those beautiful blue eyes, supersensitive to sunlight, so if you saw Noah you knew a pair of shades would be close by,” Matt Shahnavaz said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2022

My senses seemed supersensitive and I was sure I could hear their food going down, their corpuscles moving through their bloodstreams, their alveoli inflating and deflating.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2021

Researchers are pushing to build a final generation of supersensitive detectors — or one ‘ultimate’ detector — that will leave an elusive dark-matter candidate with no place to hide.

From Nature • Oct. 4, 2020

Very well, I'd become a supersensitive confirmer of their misconceptions, and just to hold their confidence I'd try to be right part of the time.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison