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Recent Examples of deaden Here was an invention no one had asked for, that promised to upend perfectly good industries while further deadening the American intellect and locking in place the political biases of post-Covid Biden-crats. Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025 By studying the images, engineers can confirm and enhance the sonic-boom-deadening properties for the XB-1's airframe. David Szondy, New Atlas, 3 Mar. 2025 Lightweight glass, a reduction of sound-deadening materials, and the marginally lighter 6-speed manual gearbox help the 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera T Cabriolet weigh 3,505 pounds—the company's lightest manual open-roof variant. Michael Harley, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025 By Richard Assheton Read On Little Britain The Breakfast Clubs America’s morning television brightens the day but deadens the soul. airmail.news, 5 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for deaden
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Verb
  • Now, its Supreme Court is moving to hold a former president accountable for allegedly trying to undermine democracy and steer the country back toward authoritarian rule.
    Júlia Dias Carneiro, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Failing to meet that obligation undermines not only educational opportunity, but also the sovereignty, economic vitality, and cultural survival of Tribal nations.
    Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His team accused Whatley of distorting the facts to cover for his support of federal policies that reduced funding for local police.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Valentino has been streamlining its wholesale channel, reduced by about 20 percent in 2024, a strategy that continued in 2025 and that is expected to impact its year-end performance.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Foreign powers such as Russia and China, which challenge America and its allies from Europe to the Middle East to Taiwan and the South China Sea, have long been accused of exploiting such divisions through disinformation campaigns that inflame tensions and weaken confidence in American governance.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But around the equinoxes, the natural buffer weakens.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • In parts of Southeast Asia, totality will begin as the full moon rises, dulling the effect.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Even when the Dodgers find a glimmer, it has been dulled rather quickly.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • With all other options seemingly exhausted, Una and Spock decide to take another path by getting in touch with their crewmates’ katras, roughly the Vulcan term for the soul, though the Vulcans would probably not want to use that term.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Jones remained on Ohio's death row for decades, exhausting most of his appeals, until Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Wende Cross overturned his murder conviction, freed him from prison and granted him a new trial two years ago.
    Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But none of this has dampened the their desires to train and compete.
    Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The devices nearly saturated the ground, and boosted humidity in the grove by 20%, dampening fire spread, Zwierzchowski said.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Add to this poor emotional literacy, a lack of transparency, back-to-back meetings and the energy-draining complexity of navigating competing priorities.
    Sandro da Silva, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Reopening is dependent on how well the area drains.
    Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • That transition will bring with it some advantages (the conflict of being a part of the Comcast empire is diminished) but also challenges.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Many observers feel that the family’s power in Thailand is diminished, and its long dominant political machine could finally be out of steam.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Deaden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deaden. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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