See wear thin on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1982 February 6, Lester Strong, “A World Cast Adrift”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 14:",
"text": "Women and gay people, for example, can start to live more freely with the breakdown of patriarchal and heterosexist institutions, while workers and people of color are able to challenge the economics of poverty and the ideology of racism as the rationales behind those notions continue to wear ever thinner.",
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"ref": "2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1090:",
"text": "[T]he ‘fun’ factor may be in part attributable the novelty of the feedback mechanism, and the sense of fun might wear thin after longer exposure to the feedback method.",
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"sense": "to lessen or weaken over time, as from overuse",
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"sense": "to lessen or weaken over time, as from overuse",
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"sense": "to lessen or weaken over time, as from overuse",
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