benumb

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Recent Examples of benumb Because both actors look like lumpish proletarian versions of Ingmar Bergman stars — Alma Pöysti, radiant yet benumbed, plays Ansa like a dish-towel Bibi Andersson, and Jussi Vatanen could be the schlump brother of Max von Sydow (with a dollop of Ryan Gosling). Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2023 What’s destructive, and eventually benumbing, is the kitchen-sink clutter of fantasy, reality, wish-fulfillment and glib enchantment. Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019 But her core insight into how even mediocrities can be institutionally benumbed and conscripted into heinous projects remains fertile. George Prochnik, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
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Verb
  • Trump, who took office on January 20, campaigned heavily on the economy, vowing to reduce inflation and impose tariffs on some of the country's closest trading partners like Mexico and Canada, citing concerns over drugs, immigration, and trade deficits.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Introduced late in the first decade of the 2000s, the program was revived in 2022 as part of a series of insurance reforms that aimed to reduce litigation — and insurance company failures.
    Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, Eco dulls down the throttle response, and the steering becomes a bit less reactive.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2025
  • He was given morphine for his physical pain, but her brother’s anguish could not be dulled.
    Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Both approaches can blunt the financial impact of carrying a debt burden over time.
    Kayla Steinberg, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • But with the 2024-25 NFL season winding down, and the Chiefs facing off against the Buffalo Bills in the American Football Conference championship game this weekend, the Taylor Swift effect appears to be blunted.
    Rob Csernyik, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Thatcher gets to explore a few different directions for Iris over the course of Companion, including numbing dullness, canny super-expertise, and steely aggression on par with the Terminator.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The impending cold snap that has the Front Range bracing for brutal temperatures also will deliver numbing cold with frostbite potential in the high country, especially in the northern mountains near the Continental Divide, according to the OpenSnow forecasting and reporting service.
    John Meyer, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • And so my part was always diminished in his presence.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The production of melanocytes (skin cells that synthesize melanin) diminishes, leading to the appearance of gray hair.
    Marie Courtois, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • As the company scales back on its ability to offer ultra-low prices, the appeal of its fast-fashion model may weaken, putting its market position at risk.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2025
  • While, on paper, tariffs on Canadian energy could have a significant impact on fuel prices, a prolonged trade war could weaken global economies, reducing demand and partially offsetting the effects of tariffs.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • America’s morning television brightens the day but deadens the soul.
    Joel Golby, airmail.news, 5 Oct. 2024
  • One way of deadening the mind to distractions is by blowing opponents off the court.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • By most measures, political violence subsided after January 2021, in part because hundreds of participants in the January 6 attack were convicted and imprisoned.
    STEVEN LEVITSKY, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Ultimately, the north winds subsided and hundreds of firefighters and volunteers got the fire under control.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025

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