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Recent Examples of hypersensitive
Those with a hypersensitive vestibular system can work on moving slowly on staircases or otherwise tough-to-navigate spaces.
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Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2024
They can be described with words like hypersensitive, insecure, and defensive.
—Joy Emeh, Health, 9 Sep. 2024
Those with such hypersensitive threat detection probably had a leg up in a Paleolithic world full of menace, but in a modern one, such stress is usually maladaptive—except in the rare cases when modern life presents true menace, which many people underreact to.
—Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 29 July 2024
Older research has discovered that estrogen can actually impact the way our brains process sound, so lower rates of estrogen during perimenopause can make our hearing hypersensitive.
—Avital Norman Nathman, Flow Space, 10 July 2024
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Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2024
They can be described with words like hypersensitive, insecure, and defensive.
—Joy Emeh, Health, 9 Sep. 2024
Those with such hypersensitive threat detection probably had a leg up in a Paleolithic world full of menace, but in a modern one, such stress is usually maladaptive—except in the rare cases when modern life presents true menace, which many people underreact to.
—Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 29 July 2024
Older research has discovered that estrogen can actually impact the way our brains process sound, so lower rates of estrogen during perimenopause can make our hearing hypersensitive.
—Avital Norman Nathman, Flow Space, 10 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypersensitive
Adjective
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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
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These young ideas rarely do — and the invaluable lesson that students glean from that realization will be lost forever if administrators cut them off at the knees by continuing to appease oversensitive cry-bullies whose antics threaten these vital sandboxes.Brian Anderson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
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Whitney Fields, 38, from Austin, was fed up with contacts scratching her supersensitive eyes.Julia Ries, SELF, 9 Sep. 2024
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The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views.James Mackintosh, WSJ, 22 June 2021
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In today’s digital age, data encryption is vital for protecting sensitive information.Ofer Lidsky, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Microsoft also provides a way to exclude apps and websites from Recall, and the feature should also automatically detect sensitive information like credit card details, passwords, and personal ID numbers and not save those snapshots.Tom Warren, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Hypersensitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypersensitive. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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