Reading about another wacky corporate payout is not something I can ever get anesthetized to.

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William tried to recover the blissful, anesthetized working state he had been in, but it was harder now.

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Pleasantly anesthetized, we examined the first of our dishes to arrive--whale sashimi.

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Leaders who are bored, in a rut, or otherwise find themselves anesthetized by the routine have a huge problem - they are not leading.

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Just like the rats, the hero ants would chew at the restraints (though not if the victims were anesthetized or from different colonies or species).

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There are surges into science fiction (courtesy of a story that Chow is writing), but they seem no less anesthetized than the smoky world of his girlfriends.

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It's also reactive: Connecting the stage and the seats is in part designed to awaken spectators who have been anesthetized by decades in front of the television.

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More usually performed on animals, the creature is given time to get used to the mirror and is then anesthetized and marked on the face with odourless, non-tactile dye.

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But they are sunburned, anesthetized.

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Ms. LITHWICK: Well, what he says is he's very concerned, and it's important to bear in mind he has rejected such claims before, he's saying that recent accounts of death row inmates who suffer episodes of very heavy breathing, of heaving chests, long, long periods of time when it's clear that they are not yet anesthetized, concerns him, and he cited specifically the Stanley Tookie Williams execution.

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