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enervating

How to use enervating in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for enervating.

Editorial note

It’s enervating, brutal, and expensive. Think you should have known what to do when you started?

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Quick take

causing debilitation

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

causing debilitation

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for enervating.

Example sentences

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It’s enervating, brutal, and expensive. Think you should have known what to do when you started?

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And it's not like I'd lose that argument, just that it would be an enervating experience for both of us.

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I hate dark mode myself so this is enervating. Can someone point me to a good article describing dark mode best practices?

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Actually, alcohol has an enervating bounce effect that kicks in a few hours after intake.

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- The black box approach is tremendously enervating. You code up a neural network architecture, launch a bunch of cloud GPU instances, and start training.

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Remember, the editorial tasks we're talking about here are enervating.

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The intention may be such, but there is plenty of study on the mentally enervating effects of jargon that I can't help but feel the goal would be better achieved with shorter, more energetic phrasing. on edit: better structure

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Even when we successfully sold a company, the experience of doing it was enervating. Doing it unsuccessfully, which is what happens most of the time, is like punching yourself in the face until you black out, waking up, and then doing it again.

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Whether the updates are beneficial or enervating, the ability to modify what should be my car is precisely the reason I will never own a Tesla.

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Com>Seliger + Associates</a> and found the experience mostly enervating—and that's with a relatively small sample set! Trying to not just evaluate a large number of products, but to customize them as well, isn't something I'm willing to do for anything save things that are important to me, like books.

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It is enervating hearing anecdotes like these from wealthy people who seemingly believe the same necessary excretions they have aren't a privilege lower classes deserve

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So tough and rank cultures tend to fall into a degenerate, enervating pattern of oscillation from one extreme to the other. This back-and-forth eventually exhausts the company, leading to constant reorganization and turmoil.

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I agree very much with the interviewee that Facebook is a cultural wasteland, that provides one of the most enervating experiences on the internet. I think as a young person he doesn’t realize how it was a cultural anomaly that small time content producers could make money through independent production of mass media.

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Certainly, this is far harder, than it was twenty years ago, when one felt it possible to align with one or another of the fresh, youthful, enervating movements that have since swept consciousness and created so much economic activity, even amid general recession. Only, the net effect, and net economy, is a vision far far removed from one I think anybody ever hoped to see.

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We won't get to a Culture style future by nickel-and-diming each other; we'll get there by developing better mechanisms of communication, fostering low-overhead group decision-making, which will allow us to collect, share, and distribute resources without having to run everything through the enervating meat-grinder that is commerce. Capitalism got us where we are, but we have to build something better if we want to go further.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use enervating in a sentence?

It’s enervating, brutal, and expensive. Think you should have known what to do when you started?

What does enervating mean?

causing debilitation

What part of speech is enervating?

enervating is commonly used as adjective.