Example Sentences

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It is dangerous to shout “antisemitism” where none exists because that will desensitize the public to real cases of antisemitism.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021

Then the treatment will desensitize it sufficiently and I can work on it without hurting you at all.'

From Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Southeastern Massachusetts by Various