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lethargy

[leth-er-jee] / ˈlɛθ ər dʒi /


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Economists suspect the lethargy could last a while, too.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

The twins developed severe symptoms, including blue lips, lethargy, diarrhea, and sunken eyes, according to the civil suit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

There was a lethargy to Newcastle and you do not have to look too far to realise where the issues are for this leaky side.

From BBC Feb. 28, 2026

Like most of the countries where Christianity first took hold, wars and economic lethargy — not to mention a relatively easier path to emigration — have dwindled Lebanon’s Christian population over the decades.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 27, 2025

In the lethargy of her pregnancy, Amaranta Úrsula tried to set up a business in necklaces made out of the backbones of fish.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For the students from the Child School, who have varying forms of learning or social disabilities, the daring river exertion seemed to relieve them of whatever physical lethargies they had.

From New York Times May 21, 2011

All its lethargies mingle their nightmares, its slumbers are a crowd, and from its human bodies lying prone there arises a vapour of dreams.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

Instances of parturition or delivery during sleep, lethargies, trances, and similar conditions are by no means uncommon.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

My lethargies have not dulled my delight in good books.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Thomas Carlyle

Have we ever seen lethargies, or swoons, or syncopes last whole years together?

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas




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