The word incessant has appeared in 89 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 13 in “You Texted? I Hadn’t Noticed” by Fortesa Latifi:
The modern phone seems to never stop vibrating, pinging and lighting up in an unending quest for our attention. Short of turning the phone off and rendering it a useless brick, there’s little one can do to get distance from a device. That’s where Do Not Disturb mode comes in.
… But once it goes up, it can be hard to take down. Like Ms. Henry, some say they switched on the mode long ago and may never turn back — occasionally to the frustration of their friends.
“I understand if someone is sleeping or busy, but if it’s on all the time, it functions like a locked door and a ‘Go Away’ doormat,” said Katriel Nopoulos, a 35-year-old disability activist in Philadelphia. “It’s the opposite of hospitality and welcoming.”And that is often the point. Zoe Marzo, 36, said she first enabled Do Not Disturb when a friend wouldn’t stop texting her. “It was incessant,” she said. “So I kind of started using it as an extra defense and boundary. Now I have it on all the time.”
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