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Recent Examples of supersensitive
Your eyes become supersensitive to sunlight: Some people with nr-axSpA will also have a condition called uveitis.
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Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 18 July 2025
Across the world, dozens of supersensitive detectors have been installed since the beginning of the Cold War era to detect infrasound waves created by nuclear tests thousands of miles away.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 12 May 2025
The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 22 June 2021
Better to stick with your Swedish clogs and Ulla Johnson dresses, and your membership at the food co-op, than to risk the wrath of hungry, countryside-roaming alien beasties with terrible eyesight but supersensitive hearing.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 May 2021
Exterminators today are taking a cue from law enforcement and turning to dogs' supersensitive noses for smelling bed bugs, ants, and termites.
—Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
Now, researchers are pushing to build a final generation of supersensitive detectors — or one ‘ultimate’ detector — that will leave the particles no place to hide.
—Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
That’s even true for the supersensitive Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), 66 radio telescopes high in the Chilean Andes that work together as a single instrument.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020
Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 18 July 2025
Across the world, dozens of supersensitive detectors have been installed since the beginning of the Cold War era to detect infrasound waves created by nuclear tests thousands of miles away.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 12 May 2025
The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 22 June 2021
Better to stick with your Swedish clogs and Ulla Johnson dresses, and your membership at the food co-op, than to risk the wrath of hungry, countryside-roaming alien beasties with terrible eyesight but supersensitive hearing.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 May 2021
Exterminators today are taking a cue from law enforcement and turning to dogs' supersensitive noses for smelling bed bugs, ants, and termites.
—Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
Now, researchers are pushing to build a final generation of supersensitive detectors — or one ‘ultimate’ detector — that will leave the particles no place to hide.
—Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
That’s even true for the supersensitive Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), 66 radio telescopes high in the Chilean Andes that work together as a single instrument.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supersensitive
Adjective
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Law enforcement faces the challenge of sorting fact from fiction in real time as swatters employ tools like AI to bolster their hoax in a hypersensitive climate surrounding mass shootings.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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In autistic individuals, this sense can be either heightened (hypersensitive) or diminished (hyposensitive).—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
Adjective
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Most commenters on the TSR post agreed that Yung Miami meant no disrespect and that Lizzo was being a little oversensitive.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2025
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The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.—
Katharine Merlin,
Town & Country,
1 Sep. 2023
Adjective
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Bella, now three and a half years old, was described by Overbye as calm, sensitive, quiet, smart, and playful.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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Prevent this by grounding AI in your documents and adding human review for sensitive content.—
Louis Mosca,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Supersensitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supersensitive. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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