How to Use anesthetized in a Sentence

anesthetized

adjective
  • But a new study of people in this state suggests the anesthetized brain still picks up sounds, words and even conversations.
    Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 6 May 2026
  • The former’s video-game fanfare is a set piece for beef, and the latter’s soulfulness arrives shackled to anesthetized sighs.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The lyrics have the same anesthetized ennui as in emo rap and the new wave of online rock, but the beats are menacingly new and dead-set on defacing your consciousness.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Other teams soon showed that astrocytes in dishes, brain slices, and even anesthetized animals responded to various neurotransmitters.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • After an anesthetized cockroach is secured on the platform, a motor slides that rig into position, and a computer vision system assesses the insect's body size and position.
    New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2025

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