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desensitise

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"But the message is that you can desensitise adults to peanuts -and there should be more focus on adults in the future."

From BBC Apr. 23, 2025

Children will be given escalating doses at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, to desensitise them to peanut proteins.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2022

Children will receive the drug in escalating doses to desensitise them to peanut proteins.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2022

But they also entomb vast tracts of fertile soil, constipate rivers, choke habitats and – acting as a rock-hard second skin – desensitise us from what is happening outside our urban fortresses.

From The Guardian Feb. 25, 2019

In his Death and Disasters series, Warhol snatched images of catastrophes from newspapers and reproduced them en masse, highlighting how the media’s profligate use of images could desensitise us.

From The Guardian Feb. 5, 2016