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insensibly

[in-sens-uh-blee]

adverb

  1. in an insensible way.



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He warned that if the Western democracies adopted economic planning and welfare states, they would insensibly lurch down the slippery slope towards tyranny.

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“Here’s the cook lying insensibly drunk on the kitchen floor, with a large bundle of fresh butter made up in the cupboard ready to sell for grease!”

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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.

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Were the United States to do so, Adams predicted, its defining trait — its very essence — "would insensibly change from liberty to force."

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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.

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