as in to stupefy
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Recent Examples of narcotize
Most are unable to rise above the stylistic miasma of the production — Whitehead sounds narcotized even when Pip isn’t on drugs — or the entirely new words they’ve been asked to say.
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Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2023
The smartphone, for all its wonder and utility, has also proved to be a narcotizing agent.
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Derek Thompson,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2019
What would happen if Parker really turned on, tuned in and dropped out, and took his show to mind-expanding — not just narcotizing — heights?
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Chris Kelly,
Washington Post,
25 Aug. 2019
Auto-Tune; hip-hop; and the nasal, narcotized, dispirited voices of SoundCloud rap compete with, and often out-stream, the kind of soulful vocal storytelling that would have had Ms. Aguilera flourishing in previous eras.
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Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
13 June 2018
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2023
The smartphone, for all its wonder and utility, has also proved to be a narcotizing agent.
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Derek Thompson,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2019
What would happen if Parker really turned on, tuned in and dropped out, and took his show to mind-expanding — not just narcotizing — heights?
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Chris Kelly,
Washington Post,
25 Aug. 2019
Auto-Tune; hip-hop; and the nasal, narcotized, dispirited voices of SoundCloud rap compete with, and often out-stream, the kind of soulful vocal storytelling that would have had Ms. Aguilera flourishing in previous eras.
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Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
13 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for narcotize
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Starting with a tone-setting marvel early, Room contorted and unfurled himself to 15 saves — including several other stupefying ones.
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Fresh juices, quality rums, pristine drinkmaking technique — the Cove stupefied with its faultless approach.
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Routine doctor’s appointments can become so overwhelming that his parents sometimes need to sedate him.
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Because the toy was too large to pass naturally, veterinarians decided to sedate Guinness and attempt an endoscopic procedure to remove it.
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The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill on June 23 seeking to alleviate a growing housing crisis by streamlining construction regulations, encouraging local innovation, and limiting investor purchases of homes, among other steps.
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According to the European Commission, the duty-free de minimis exemption was introduced in order to alleviate administrative burdens for customs authorities and businesses, but the digitalization of customs procedures has ameliorated that issue.
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Teng, who has started and relieved in his professional career, threw a career-high 136 1/3 innings with Double-A Richmond in 2022.
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Hoerner moved to third on a balk and pinch-hitter Matt Shaw walked, but Abner Uribe relieved and retired the next two hitters.
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And this time—unlike the first year of the Chávez administration, when some Venezuelans still saw the new president as a source of hope — neither oil revenues nor all the international aid combined will be enough to mitigate the effects of the most powerful earthquake in a century.
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The process is meant to mitigate the chance of any sensitive instruments being damaged, Katalyst said in a press release.
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Marcy Park is a place where families, pets, and Highlands Ranch residents go to relax, and where Laura Nelson saw an opportunity to engage with her community.
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One of its earliest central promises was to relax Howard’s gun laws.
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That helped allay worries a bit that its stock had grown too expensive after coming into the day with a surge of 267% so far this year.
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That helped allay worries a bit that its stock had grown too expensive after coming into the day with a surge of 267% so far this year.
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Many large data center operators have tried to assuage public concerns about electricity prices by promising to pay for such upgrades, but those promises are not legally binding.
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This is a wonderful option and might do a lot to assuage the guilt the letter writers are feeling.
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“Narcotize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narcotize. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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