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as in unconscious
lacking animate awareness or sensation the belief that God is immanent in all things, even insensate objects

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Recent Examples of insensate The brain, like other internal organs, is insensate, its lack of sensory receptors attested by videos of virtuoso violinists who play on unfazed as neurosurgeons go to work inside their skulls. Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024 But states have used midazolam alone — and at much higher doses — in executions since 2013, claiming the drug will render people insensate to pain before the administration of other lethal injection drugs. Lauren Gill, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2023 Jerome Powell and his Federal Reserve colleagues are hardly insensate to the risk that their inflation-fighting actions might bring Mr. Trump back to power. Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 14 June 2022 Realigning themselves with sophomoric virtues, the stars sell their souls in accommodation to the insensate new era. Armond White, National Review, 28 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insensate
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  • According to the district attorney’s office, the autopsy also revealed that Bella still may have been alive, although unconscious, when Landon folded her body and stuffed it in the bucket head first.
    Nicole Acosta, People.com, 6 May 2025
  • The pregnant woman, who had been in her second trimester, was found unconscious and not breathing when police arrived at the home, the probable cause said.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • Wes Anderson is talking about a surreal moment that occurs early in his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, in which the protagonist, the ruthless international tycoon Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), experiences a vision of the afterlife.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 May 2025
  • But that this most ruthless edition of Chelsea’s six successive years of WSL superiority has come under the supervision of a new head coach, Sonia Bompastor, following the end of the 12-year Emma Hayes era, is perhaps most impressive of all.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • That adds individuality to sections of inanimate space.
    Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Wait until these powers are in the hands of an inanimate AI programmed to disfavor or even target conservatives through the vast powers of the federal government.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
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  • This time, his assignment takes him to Serbia, as he is tasked with assassinating the merciless General Mile Valstoria (Peter Linka).
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 10 May 2025
  • That was 12 years ago, and yet the talk about him continues here, the ghosts live on, and with merciless frequency Lerro privately relives the fateful morning in which a vicious storm descended upon him with no warning.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Tabo turns, in his mother’s eyes, into a cold and unfeeling stone.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • So much modern football is mechanical and unfeeling; Joao Felix is loose and breezy.
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The complexities of her character mirrored in her stony, resentful stare, in her grim, unforgiving mouth, will always baffle and enthrall.
    E.R. Zarevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2025
  • Havoc brings the heat, throwing Tom Hardy's stony Walker into a hotbed of gangsters, dirty cops, corrupt elites, and wicked assassins.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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  • The lie here is senseless, not made as a last ditch effort to keep his relationship with Ellie intact.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • The victims and their families affected by this senseless act will forever be in our thoughts and prayers.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 16 May 2025
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  • This version of Johnny is less callous with other people's feelings, and hopefully there's a self-awareness about what's driving that attention-seeking behavior.
    EW.com, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The faceoff between Cara and the lion is an unmistakable callback to the series premiere, which opened with Cara gunning down a man in what initially appeared to be a callous act of violence (but is later revealed to be retribution for an assassination attempt on her family).
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025

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“Insensate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insensate. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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