The sheer volume of such reports may be dulling their impact.
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"Those plates are too shiny, use some dulling spray," she said.
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Dulling those symptoms can make it easier to stick with quitting.
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"I would never compromise on... "Dulling my personal style in any situation.
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Even the exterior is made to avoid cracking or dulling over time.
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The device did not work properly, dulling its impact, the police said.
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Most parents dismiss videogames as a mind-dulling distraction from their kids' studies.
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By dulling the pleasure of drinking, this drug may help some people avoid binges.
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And have the opioids created a pleasant, dulling sensation that itself has become desirable?
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Of course, dry shampoo is also dulling the hair, which she says they don't realize.
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But the effectiveness of ''homophobia'' has had the effect of dulling its initially pointed critique.
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Rating: A pair of dulling harmonicas that never get too frenzied, mostly complementing one another.
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Central bankers are often accused of dulling investors' sensitivity to risks with ultra-easy monetary policy.
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The dulling of emotions by Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) is known as emotional blunting.
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Plus, it acts as an invisible shield, protecting polish from chipping and dulling — no UV lamps required.
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Both hands stayed shiny for days, dulling at the same rate, and came off easily without staining.
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But Amazon has countered the dulling of free shipping by building out the rest of the ecosystem.
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Instead, it has the cumulative effect of dulling any emotional reaction The King might have otherwise provoked.
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Its most controversial conclusion is that dulling those incentives could be just the thing a divided society needs.
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I also want to know if my reliance on Grammarly to correct my spelling is dulling my brain.
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He made it through his days sipping lean, a sweet, dulling mixture of cough syrup—codeine—and Sprite.
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But in the fifth episode of the series, it becomes clear why these dulling routines are so valuable.
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When Ms. Jordan started attending a rock 'n' roll camp, her passion became a competition, dulling her interest.
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Personally, I did not want to take my Vicodin prescription given the dulling side effects and risk for addiction.
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Just as in striking, you raise your rate of success by dulling the opponent's reactions with variety and misdirection.
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And initial reports from China suggest convalescent plasma might also be effective in dulling the effects of COVID-19.
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India's Silicon Valley, Bangalore, was a startup darling just two years ago, but now its star appears to be dulling.
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Mr Obama, for instance, barely mentions the stifling role of regulation in deterring investment, dampening productivity growth and dulling innovation.
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It can be loss of appetite, a dulling of taste, food having a metallic flavour, or experiencing a sore mouth.
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"To avoid darkening or dulling your color, use a color-safe shampoo that leaves no residues or films," he says.
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And of course, like all cast iron, each piece heats evenly to seal in moisture while resisting staining or dulling.
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At higher doses, it sedates dulling pain -- which has made it a popular over-the-counter remedy for opioid withdrawal.
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And when it comes down to it, a slight wilting and dulling of leaf color could make or break a grower.
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Environmentalists and historians have long warned about the risk of soot and fumes from factories and tanneries dulling the ivory monument.
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After the rejectionism of the Tea Party, the dulling safe spaces and trigger warnings, the anger of campus incarnations of #blacklivesmatter.
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The opioids "dock" with these receptors in the brain and peripheral nervous system dulling pain but also causing deadly side effects.
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Essentially, all of these work by overwhelming, dulling, or changing the pain signals your body is sending via receptors your skin.
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The constant feinting and variety of Bisping kept Silva from throwing effective counters, dulling his reactions and numbing his trigger finger.
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Group revenue rose 1 percent, with a 15 percent decline in revenue from VIP visitors dulling gains from mass market visitors.
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Maybelline's vocals and choir synths add a gothic richness to it, slightly dulling the severity and immediacy of the demanding bass line.
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After months of delay, 2015's Jupiter Ascending was released dulling some of the excitement a new Wachowski title might otherwise generate.
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" He called Twitter "the political pornography of our time: revealing but distorting, exciting but dulling, debasing to its users, and, well, ejaculatory.
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So you stay the course, despite knowing that burying the feelings will ultimately create a dulling darkness that is even more insidious.
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The implants we're giving to our supersoldiers dehumanize them in the minds of the soldiers, dulling the psychological toll of killing innocents.
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Doubling the length of tweets might, possibly, have the unintended consequence of dulling the service in an as-of-yet undetermined manner.
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In Kindred, Butler describes slavery as "a long slow process of dulling," and it's not difficult to see prison in a similar light.
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Steele tells me that one of the things she's looking at in her research is how overeating may be dulling the receptors of dopamine.
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Terms are generous and duties light, dulling the incentive for bright graduates to invest in skills needed by the private sector, such as engineering.
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Some scientists also say that the mechanism that makes leaves red may not work as efficiently in much warmer weather, eventually dulling those colors.
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When they return, they drink or shoot up, in order to make their pipe dreams seem more real, while dulling, somewhat, their jumpy sensitivity.
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It felt like a dream, the memories hazy but somehow still fresh — something so familiar but now somewhat foreign from the dulling effects of time.
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Things that sparkle draw attention naturally, but finding a way to downplay the look without dulling the shine was the ultimate goal of this week.
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I knew women who were simply trying to get by and dulling themselves just a little bit to do so, like The Handmaid's Tale's June.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is dulling the golden sheen of one of the most prolific Oscar influencers of the modern era.
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Too often Harrington's crisp, perceptive sentences are followed by three or four more that say pretty much the same thing, dulling her otherwise stylish prose.
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European church glass of the period featured painted figures applied onto the glass with brushwork and then fired like pottery, dulling the play of light.
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And second, it risks dulling our ability to invest in truly breakthrough therapies out of a fear that care will be judged solely on cost.
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Instead of the usual dulling of flavor as the sun beams down on your beverage, these five ice cube recipes below actually amplify your summer sippers.
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Even with the European Central Bank dialling back its stimulus, the dulling of a once-rosy growth outlook and political tensions made "boring" look attractive again.
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This is the great sedative of Australian politics: dulling our attention, rendering all else some indecipherable white noise we only vaguely register before we fall asleep.
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She flew into Boston, and he pleaded with her to rescue him from Massachusetts General Hospital and the mind-dulling medication he was given after surgery.
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If a fighter is loading up waiting to counter, feints see him throwing at air, growing more cautious, and eventually dulling his own responses to legitimate strikes.
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She warned that even at levels below the detection threshold hawked by Amorim, TCA can still damage the wine, muting or otherwise dulling the aromas and flavors.
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Ms. Melford reached into the piano, dulling the strings as she struck single notes and Ms. Hughes plucked big pizzicato notes, in and out of the key.
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Look for Carter's speech, titled "Dulling the Edge: How Congress Risks Undermining the Finest Fighting Force the World Has Ever Known," to be another salvo in that fight.
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These days, with wear and tear dulling his lightning speed, his game looks vulnerable against lower-ranked players prepared to attack him — as Verdasco did to devastating effect.
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The Cruz-Kasich alliance is aimed at dulling that trajectory with the Texas senator focusing on Indiana while the Ohio governor aims his resources at Oregon and New Mexico.
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And, as with regular soda, the carbonation compounds the effect of artificial sweeteners -- dulling the taste just enough to intensify our cravings and have us cracking open another can.
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"When two people bicker, just the term alone shows the anxiety and the competitive need to be 'right,' which is problematic and dulling to anyone's sex life," Rosenberg says.
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TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - A worrying sign of inversion in the U.S. Treasury bond curve is dulling the appeal of the developed world's highest-yielding bond market for foreign investors.
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Potentially dulling appetite for gold as a safe-haven asset, China and the United States began their latest talks in Beijing on Wednesday aimed at ending a bitter trade war.
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Many, like Shirley Husar of California, combine a fiery belief in black self-reliance with a contempt for what they see as the ambition-dulling power of the welfare state.
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In fact, studies demonstrate that positive experiences of psychosis are one reason people stop taking medication, in addition to side effects like weight gain, mental dulling and painful muscle spasms.
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Technical analyses of the paintings reveal the challenges ahead: Ultraviolet light shows multiple layers of uneven varnish, which have grayed and picked up dirt over the years, dulling the images.
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He will decline at some point, of course, his influence waning and his brilliance dulling, but Neymar and Hazard will be nearing 30 by the time he vacates his perch.
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Despite a U.S. holiday dulling market activity, the pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.3%, with trade-sensitive German stocks hitting all-time highs as Beijing stepped up stimulus measures.
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The greenback had fallen to the low on Wednesday in a knee-jerk reaction to the U.S. midterm election results, with a divided Congress seen dulling President Trump's fiscal stimulus drive.
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In fact they could be the biggest potential traps for Guillaume Faury, the 28-year-old Frenchman who replaced Mr Enders on April 211th, because they risk dulling Airbus's competitive edge.
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The study of the appetite-dulling mutation was led by Dr. Sadaf Farooqi, professor of metabolism and medicine at the University of Cambridge, and Nick Wareham, an epidemiologist at the university.
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If you're like me, you start to notice dulling of your color about five weeks after your salon visit — and that's usually a good month or so before the next scheduled appointment.
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Cronos said its net product revenue per gram sold outside the United States nearly halved to C$3.75 in the third quarter, dulling a 31% improvement in cost of sales per gram sold.
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I simply find that cocktails, dinner, a bottle of wine and an episode of whatever we've been societally bullied into watching tends to sap enthusiasm for sex while diminishing performance and dulling sensation.
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In the family neighborhoods surrounding the University of Michigan, where higher numbers of older voters live, turnout increased in some cases to more than 55%, dulling the impact of a youth vote increase.
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Much like he did at the California state convention last week, Sanders in his speech warned that entering 2020 with "middle ground" positions risks dulling the argument against Trump and the wider Republican agenda.
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It was an all-around rough time, but I did learn a valuable lesson: Body scrubs and conditioning masks can work miracles to combat the drying, dulling, and flaking effects of a frightful season.
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But Howard Neufeld, a professor of biology at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, said climate change could eventually affect the complex processes in leaf senescence and lower anthocyanin production, dulling the autumn reds.
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When Landon Donovan, the most decorated man in American soccer history, awoke on the morning after the most deflating defeat in American soccer history, sleep had not succeeded in dulling much of his sadness.
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When I wore them during the workday, the Liberty 2 Pros were capable of dulling the chatter from my coworkers, which represented an improvement over the standard $160 AirPods which provide no enclosure whatsoever.
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Rather than dulling the rock & roll, this mechanized approach somehow jacks up the energy to an unbelievable degree, so that the end result goes bang pop pow boom without canceling out its detached, hypnotic qualities.
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In the right settings, systems like Autopilot make it seem like the car can truly drive itself, which can in turn lead to a false sense of security, or a dulling of the driver's awareness.
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The multitasking AHA/BHA duo of willow-bark extract and apple water is offset by allantoin and panthenol, which nourish and balance the skin as they clear blemishes and sweep away dulling dead skin cells.
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In their next experiment, they wanted to see how people would respond to making mistakes on acetaminophen; if drugs like Tylenol were dulling a response to conflict, this could be another way to show it.
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The color palette of the series, shot by Heimo Ritzinger, changes in the "Deluth" chapters, dulling its bright yellows for icy blues, but the tone of the series remains brilliantly consistent all the way through.
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The research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that psilocybin—the "magic" in magic mushrooms—changes the way the brain processes social conflicts, dulling the pain and anxiety of rejection.
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Recipe: Vietnamese Braised Pork Ribs | More Vietnamese Recipes And to Drink ... These ribs, with their spicy, herbal, slightly sweet marinade, call for a wine that will reflect and amplify those flavors without dulling or overpowering them.
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Kratom also has opioid-like effects -- at low doses, it acts like a stimulant; at higher doses, it sedates, dulling pain -- which has also made it popular as an over-the-counter remedy for opioid withdrawal.
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" In it, Benjamin describes the different varieties of middle-of-the-night dislocation — nights when "the thickening, sense-dulling" darkness "hangs velvety as a pall," or the "luminous moonlit nights, lurid nights, when everything feels heightened.
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When we accept a cult of personality, we are not only yielding our right to choose leaders but also dulling the skills and weakening the institutions that would allow us to do so in the future.
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Because, while reading a cover story in New York magazine, it occurred to me that Twitter is the political pornography of our time: revealing but distorting, exciting but dulling, debasing to its users, and, well, ejaculatory.
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Lilliet's passive narration has a distant, formal tone, seemingly meant as a re-creation of 19th-century voice, but executed without the mastery of a Catton or Waters, dulling the drama, even at the most theatrical moments.
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I talked it over with our brilliant color artist, John Rauch, and we came up with the idea of dulling down the rest of the world and then really playing up the saturated color on the Beauties.
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It's a surprisingly affecting tableau of trans sexuality, insecurity, and the quiet desperation we all live with, refracted through the life of a self-immolating woman who sells out her sisters in the hopes of dulling her own pain.
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A House episode from 2012 depicted an asexual couple, but in the end revealed that one of them had a brain tumor dulling their sex drive and the other was in fact pretending to be asexual to stay in the relationship.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - The ongoing trade spat between the world's two largest economies will restrain the roaring U.S. economy, dulling an expected boost to growth from massive tax cuts passed through Congress just a few months ago, a Reuters poll found.
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Though the IG found that none of the classified information that Comey shared outside the FBI made it into the press, dulling some of the sharpest barbs from Trump, the report concludes with steep criticism for the former FBI chief.
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Using a scanning electron microscope to get an up-close look at the sharkskin, the researchers observed that 25 percent of the skin's denticles were damaged by the corrosive waters — dulling the denticles' pointed edges and their usually sleek surfaces.
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Regulatory agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration still maintain that current levels of BPA exposure in food are not a concern to human health, pointing to research showing that people metabolize BPA faster than mice, dulling any possible toxic effects.
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Trump's blanket defiance of Congressional subpoenas has forced Congress to chip off individual flakes of information from his administration, dulling the impact of negative information by drawing out the release over a prolonged period that could stretch beyond Trump's reelection next year.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. inflation expectations edged lower last month, dulling a year-end rise, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey published on Monday as financial markets looked to such price measures for direction after a choppy trading week.
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The surfeit of inventory is dulling buyers' sense of urgency, Mr. Miller said, noting that there were 6,985 units for sale in the quarter, an increase of almost 11 percent over last year — the largest supply in the second quarter since 2011.
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Chantecaille's Lip Veil ($48) and Estée Lauder's Pure Color Desire ($44) rely on hydrating oils (baobab, olive, caster seed), and Charlotte Tilbury's Superstar Lips ($34) contains high-tech polymers that create a velvety finish without dulling the intensity of its color pigments.
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The other dangers of committing the weight to driving straight in without first dulling the opponent's senses are of being side stepped, or of being jammed with a low line straight kick—both of which Assuncao did at points in his bout with Dillashaw.
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Beset by investors pressing for lower fees and the dulling effect of central bank easy monetary policies, the biggest winners were largely to be found betting on credit, a rebound in commodity, energy and emerging markets or the election-fuelled run-up in U.S. stocks.
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Lastly, while the Kremlin may feel itself to be condemned, at least for now, to stick to its current course or something very like it, Putin and his colleagues must also take into account the fact that the Russian domestic appetite for foreign adventures is dulling.
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In his review, Ratner shows that the ongoing research in this area has expanded beyond just the dulling of social rejection to findings that acetaminophen can change our responses to reminders of our death, the intensity of our mind wandering, or how much we value our possessions.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada is expected to hold policy steady for the rest of this year, with calls for the next hike in early 225 resting on a knife's edge, a Reuters poll showed, the latest dulling of rate expectations for a major central bank.
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Though Bee didn't pull any punches (calling Nixon's secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, a war criminal immediately before cutting to footage of Kissinger laughing jocularly felt especially pointed), the segments didn't quite land — they lacked the immediacy and fury that animates Bee's best bits, dulling their edge.
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In his ghetto bit Chappelle creates a rich world of surrealistic vignettes and characters with his near perfect miming of roller windows and approximation of the dead-eyed stare of a baby selling weed in the ghetto at 3 AM. Time has changed Chappelle's act, dulling his physicality.
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Rather, it's a different kind of special water, one that uses tiny micelles, which are clusters of fatty-acid esters, to dissolve dirt, makeup, and oil on the skin without drying — gentle, no-rinse cleansers that wipe away waterproof mascara and dulling dead-cell buildup in one fell swoop.
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I wouldn't have quibbled with a breakdown closer to seven games for Ingram, five for Rondo and three for Paul, for tone-setting purposes for the rest of the season but also to censure those responsible for dulling the shine of an otherwise wonderful opening week of the season.
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While it's old news for fast food brands to take to social media with their own nihilist takes, all ready for meme posterity, Applebee's is building the anxieties of the age into brand strategy, selling food and drink that's specifically targeted at dulling the pain of our current existence.
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The Bank of Canada is expected to hold policy steady at its April 24 meeting and for the rest of this year, with calls for the next hike in early 2020 resting on a knife's edge, a Reuters poll showed, the latest dulling of rate expectations for a major central bank.
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But at its best, Jorn's project was a way of reviving and defending creative imagination in our sense-dulling world of material glut, and the same holds for many of the two dozen or so artists in "Strategic Vandalism: The Legacy of Asger Jorn's Modification Paintings" at Petzel Gallery in Chelsea.
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Something is wrong, the common person feels, correctly: she works too hard and gets too little; a dulling disconnect exists between her actual day-to-day interests and (1) the way her leaders act and speak, and (2) the way our mass media mistell or fail entirely to tell her story.
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The Bank of Canada is expected to hold its benchmark interest rate steady at 1.75% on Wednesday and for the rest of this year, with calls for the next hike in early 2020 resting on a knife's edge, a Reuters poll showed, the latest dulling of rate expectations for a major central bank.
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Analysts at KBW earlier this year estimated that the largest banks could get a cumulative earnings uplift of an average of 30 percent from what it termed "regulatory relief," such as a dulling of the Volcker Rule and a fall in the extra capital U.S. banks must hold compared to global rivals.
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That would be Cersei, who since the Season 4 assassination of her son King Joffrey has been on a long slide marked by loss (her father and daughter), humiliation (her walk of shame) and most crucially, an apparent dulling of her once formidable sense of how to work the angles of power.
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Three million users have already deployed some aspect of the breakup flow, as it's called, by choosing to minimize what they see of an ex going forward, and similarly hide their own postings, settings that can easily be reversed if the future brings a change of heart or a dulling of the ache.
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Misery was essayed everywhere, in the lentils soaking on the draining board, in the way that he tried to scour a tea mug with his index finger under the running tap—she saw his glum and mortified face in the dulling window; the evening was already fading outside, late August leaning into September.
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Rather than critiquing mass media as the film does, however, with Newton dulling himself and losing his mission in a wash bottles of gin and a wall of TVs, Lazarus seems fixated on the demons that haunt within us—unfulfilled ambitions, mostly, which make sense given that Newton came here with one job to do, and didn't do it.
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Making your safety list, monitoring the tide and current, keeping track of sunset and setting up your safety lights if you stay out after it, balancing so that you don't capsize: These are small exercises in mindfulness but they add up to make the experience something more than a mind-dulling inner tube float on a river with a beer on hand.
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Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor at Mercer University who is writing a book with Professor Milner called "The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Humor and Antagonism Online," said that the life cycle of a meme like this one — which has been remixed and repurposed for humor and cruelty — has a way of dulling our sense of the offline implications of an online joke.
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