In 1997 he hiked through Idaho with University of Chicago researchers, helping to capture, anesthetize, measure and radio-collar mountain lions.

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Social media has offered us a new way to anesthetize a deep-rooted feeling of lack: the more likes we get, the better we feel.

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Wouldn't you want to anesthetize yourself from that kind of pain?

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As Kemp understood, austerity without economic growth to anesthetize the pain and calm the passions of the mob is explosive an economic maelstrom that drags all boats under.

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Yes, it can anesthetize a populace with rosy half-truths.

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All that's left is to anesthetize yourself by trying to hide the fact that you can't find any meaning in your life, and then, the better to convince yourself, you deceive your own children.

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They could simply anesthetize their specimens to death.

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