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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
desensitise .
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Examples
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Adding to the confusion, Lidstone said that the agency's focus groups also showed the public was becoming "desensitised" to unseasonal weather and dramatic events like flooding.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk Juliette Jowit 2010
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Hugh Hefner claims seeing women naked '' never loses its magic '' even though he has become slightly '' desensitised '' to nudity over the years.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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Another use of the peanuts would be in immunotherapy - helping patients who have an established allergy become 'desensitised' by giving them a low dose of peanuts over time.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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It teaches the person to be "desensitised" to his emotions while preventing the unwanted behaviour.
TODAYonline 2010
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Now he says he has been left "desensitised", trusting no one outside his immediate family; his faith in humanity all but destroyed.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010
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The report said: "The head of the programmes team at one centre felt that some staff might have become 'desensitised' to the feelings and anxieties of young people and their families when they were placed many miles from home in a strange area with a different local subculture, where the staff 'talk funny'."
BBC News - Home 2010
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Now he says he has been left "desensitised", trusting no one outside his immediate family; his faith in humanity all but destroyed.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010
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"desensitised" Curtis, as there had been to that point no long term consequences.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2009
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Danny Webb as the callous but defenceless Ian, Lydia Wilson as the surprisingly tough, resourceful Cate and Aidan Kelly as the soldier desensitised by war are also first-rate.
Blasted - review Michael Billington 2010
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Maybe it's time for the increasingly desensitised masses to recognise that real murder cases do not exist for our entertainment, like an episode of Miss Marple or CSI.
Joanna Yeates' last days and an intrusion too far | Barbara Ellen 2011
claudiob commented on the word desensitised
How many more young children are being desensitised to homosexuality in their young years by these sophisticated techniques?
July 3, 2009
yarb commented on the word desensitised
What sophisticated techniques?
July 3, 2009