Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obtunded
Adjective
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After an anesthetized cockroach is secured on the platform, a motor slides that rig into position, and a computer vision system assesses the insect's body size and position.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Aug. 2025 -
Lamb and Smit approach with their gear and check vitals, then begin measuring, sampling and hoisting the grizzly’s anesthetized body into the air in a sling winched to a tree.—
Lesley Evans Ogden,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
Verb
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Played for comic relief, he is baffled by this son of his who attends college and, more perplexing yet, is suddenly obsessed with Italy and cycling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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Physicists were baffled as to why this material would suddenly stop conducting current once the tellurium content reached approximately 30 percent—a change that its basic chemical composition could not explain.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Hesse is starting to lose his vision — a reality that a man who spent his life looking through a camera is unwilling to accept just yet — but his passion for filmmaking hasn’t dulled in the slightest.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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The emotions that drive decisions at the top of the free-agent market — sentimentality, desperation, urgency — are dulled by the organization’s adherence to process.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The drugged murderers are disassociated in every sense.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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The dude can work in Van Halen song titles or stupid words from drugged-out journalists on demand and on command.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Advertisement Whether out of unconscious sexism, his infatuation with her, or both, Lee was catastrophically wrong in assuming that Betty Jo was an innocent victim in the Washberg affair.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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Jokes and dreams are two of the best ways to reveal someone’s unconscious life.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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In 2025, firms buffered costs with existing contracts and inventories.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Oct. 2025
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At the headline-index level, a modest blip, the S & P 500 down half a percent at the worst, though in part the slide is being buffered by uncharacteristic strength in some defensive groups.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The boy is stupefied, snot intermingling with the puke dripping from his mouth to his navel.—
Matthew Shen Goodman,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Essentially, external influences change how genes are modulated, and the blood test can identify these markers of ME/CFS.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Oct. 2025
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But her singing now is less showy and more nuanced and carefully modulated.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Obtunded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obtunded. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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