Word: deadening
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...meet. As a result, the average college grad - who leaves school with about $23,000 in student-loan debt - either slogs along during those first few work years in satisfying (yet typically low-paying) jobs or makes a play for grinding corporate gigs that pay the bills and deaden the heart...
...most Baudelaire flâner up the tree-lined Avenue Kléber through the sixteenth arrondissement in Paris, the Eiffel Tower at my back did little to deaden the pangs of hunger in my stomach. Fresh off my flight from home, I had been promptly abandoned by my numbingly French host family and had bravely ventured out in search of my first French meal. Unfortunately, in this astronomically expensive and quite residential quartier, baguette sandwiches with camembert or jambon simply do not abound.After an inordinate number of blocks, I could sense the blisters begin to burgeon on my heels...
...attempt to transfuse the vitality of the endeavors that students pursue outside the classroom into what is an oftentimes-inert academic experience is ill-conceived, to say the least. Instead of enlivening students’ academic experience, as the Task Force hopes, we fear that it will deaden the extracurricular scene...
...hurts in areas where I'm supposed to be dead," he says) since the 1972 assassination attempt that left him a paraplegic; in Englewood, Colo. Wallace reported that he felt less pain in his legs after the operation, which involved opening the spinal column and inserting 80 electrodes to deaden nerves...
...game began to slip away, Sullivan pleaded with his team to try to deaden the pace. On one trip down the floor, junior point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman turned towards the Harvard bench and acknowledged his coach’s instructions...