insensibleness

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Noun
  • Numbness had set in, and with numbness, indifference.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The rise of Silicon Valley, from indifference to lords of the political universe.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Such reticence was already present during Trump’s first term.
    Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This posture may have at least made some political sense in the early days of the war, but Netanyahu soon understood that Biden's reticence to restrain him had the effect of legitimizing blind vengeance as policy.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That composure led to him landing a knee in the third round after a scramble to get off the mat and setting up the ground strikes that finished the fight at the 3:43 mark of Round 3.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Trailing 6-4, Tien showed remarkable composure and character to win six of the last seven points, securing the victory in four hours, 49 minutes.
    George Ramsay, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • State of phlegm: From Dec. 29 to Jan. 4, metro hospitals admitted more people with influenza than any week in at least the previous five years, according to the latest Minnesota Department of Health data.
    Kyle Stokes, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
  • For some years, my larynx has been swimming in phlegm, the result of an undetermined ratio between reflux and postnasal drip.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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