numbing
Example Sentences
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The numbing lidocaine was injected first and sprayed down my windpipe, making me feel as if I were drowning.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026
When supplied in large quantities, they can have a numbing effect.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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
Too much media would be numbing, dulling, cheat her children of an engaged life, the kind she’d always craved as a child.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
