insensibly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“Watching this shocking footage, I and every other Black man I know saw the insensibly sluggish murder of ourselves,” the CNN anchor Don Lemon recounts.
From New York Times
Were the United States to do so, Adams predicted, its defining trait — its very essence — "would insensibly change from liberty to force."
From Salon
It will continue doing what it's done for more than 4 billion years—insensibly circling Earth, a dead rock at the end of a long gravitational tether.
From Time
You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
From Time
I went home after taking Fioricet and slept insensibly, and was practically giddy the next day out of gratitude for not being utterly miserable.
From Salon
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