lethargy
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In addition to eye, skin and breathing problems, MMA exposure can cause headaches, coughing and lethargy, according to the EPA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Three days into their holiday in October, Ashley fell ill with symptoms including stomach pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, fever and extreme lethargy, Irwin Mitchell said.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
Depression was assessed through a questionnaire asking about depressed mood, disinterest, restlessness or lethargy during the previous two weeks.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
The US pontiff urged the world to rouse itself from "the fatal lethargy in which we are immersed".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Mole was in the tree snoozing on Sam’s bed, and Jessie Coon James was in a hollow, dozing in winter lethargy.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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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
Thus in my journey during those long hours I found it—agonies subsiding into lethargies, and these breaking again into frenzy.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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 Christmas, Henry
It has long been used by the Chinese in cases of headaches, lethargies, convulsions, colics, &c.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
For my part, when I behold a fashionable table, set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes.”
From Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew by Berens, Edward
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