See insensate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Since thus divided — equal must it be\nIf the deep barrier be of earth, or sea;\nIt may be both — but one day end it must\nIn the dark union of insensate dust.",
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"ref": "1928, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Moriturus:",
"text": "If I might be\nInsensate matter\nWith sensate me\nSitting within,\nHarking and prying,\nI might begin\nTo dicker with dying.",
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"text": "[…]the sot, the gambler, the bully, the jockey, the insensate fool, were a thousand times preferable to Rashleigh;—[…]",
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"ref": "1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Stupidly dozing, or communing with her incapable self about nothing, she sat for a little while with her hands at her ears. . . . Finally, she laid her insensate grasp upon the bottle that had swift and certain death in it, and, before his eyes, pulled out the cork with her teeth.",
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"ref": "1913, Joseph Conrad, “ch. 6”, in Chance:",
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"ref": "1918, Louis Joseph Vance, “ch. 12”, in The False Faces:",
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"ref": "1847, Anne Brontë, “ch. 36”, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:",
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"ref": "1904, Frank Norris, “ch. 6”, in A Man's Woman:",
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"ref": "1917, Frank L. Packard, “ch. 8”, in The Adventures of Jimmie Dale:",
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