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as in unconscious
lacking animate awareness or sensation
the belief that God is immanent in all things, even insensate objects
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as in ruthless
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
an insensate boss who refuses to allow time off for funerals
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Recent Examples of insensate
The brain, like other internal organs, is insensate, its lack of sensory receptors attested by videos of virtuoso violinists who play on unfazed as neurosurgeons go to work inside their skulls.
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Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
But states have used midazolam alone — and at much higher doses — in executions since 2013, claiming the drug will render people insensate to pain before the administration of other lethal injection drugs.
—Lauren Gill, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2023
Jerome Powell and his Federal Reserve colleagues are hardly insensate to the risk that their inflation-fighting actions might bring Mr. Trump back to power.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 14 June 2022
Realigning themselves with sophomoric virtues, the stars sell their souls in accommodation to the insensate new era.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 Oct. 2020
Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
But states have used midazolam alone — and at much higher doses — in executions since 2013, claiming the drug will render people insensate to pain before the administration of other lethal injection drugs.
—Lauren Gill, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2023
Jerome Powell and his Federal Reserve colleagues are hardly insensate to the risk that their inflation-fighting actions might bring Mr. Trump back to power.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 14 June 2022
Realigning themselves with sophomoric virtues, the stars sell their souls in accommodation to the insensate new era.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insensate
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This was one of those overdoses that had the absolute reverberation of a slow-motion, unconscious descent into self-destruction.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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With the sun conjunct Pluto in Aquarius — shaking up your 12th house of closure, dreams, healing and unconscious patterns — you’re empowered with an inner knowing and deep sense of spirituality.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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The lawyer who normally practices in New York is gregarious, quick with a joke and always happy to talk to the media, but can be ruthless in cross-examination.—
Andrew Dalton,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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City are going through some stuff, Arsenal aren’t ruthless enough, Chelsea are wobbling, teams will figure out how to beat Nottingham Forest soon enough, Newcastle are the form team now but are an Alexander Isak injury away from trouble.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Celebrate by having a relaxing bath with your favorite inanimate waterfowl.—
Rosalind Bowling,
The Tennessean,
20 Dec. 2024
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Reserve disinfecting products for inanimate surfaces only.—
Michele Cohen Marill,
WIRED,
28 Apr. 2020
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The community that had long been home to hundreds of entertainment industry workers was engulfed by a wildfire whipped into a merciless inferno by 80-mile an hour winds.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
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Scarcity of food and clean water have become merciless tormentors, and the numbers tell a story that words cannot fully convey.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes,
5 Jan. 2025
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Human failings amidst an unfeeling snowpocalypse make for some engaging scenes.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
22 Dec. 2024
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The author renders the four-year-old Margaret’s inner life with sensitive complexity, depicting an alert child logic that defies adults’ view of her as slow and unfeeling.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
12 June 2024
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Analysis found the samples were ordinary chondrites, the most common type of stony meteorite found on Earth, accounting for about 86 percent of all space rocks recovered.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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Netanyahu is far more popular in Israel now than before the war and the Egyptian leader, who has viciously persecuted its parent organization, the global Muslim Brotherhood, has been reprieved by Western creditors in reward for maintaining a stony silence over Gaza.—
Max Rodenbeck,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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Please join us in supporting our neighbors affected by this senseless tragedy.—
Fox News Staff,
Fox News,
5 Jan. 2025
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In what family members are calling a senseless act of violence, police in Southern California are investigating after a 19-year-old man was fatally shot in along a Los Angeles street just days before Christmas.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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You son’s reaction is needlessly callous, to you and to your friend.—
R. Eric Thomas,
The Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2025
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Postponing means the people behind this callous attack win.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
1 Jan. 2025
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“Insensate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insensate. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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