stupor
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At the camp, Ibrahim said, adults and children alike often wander around in a sort of stupor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Since then residents have been in some kind of stupor, dazed, angry and tired.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
You can spend all night talking your friend through a breakup, reminding them that they’re better off without the other person, until you’ve spoken yourself into a stupor on the couch.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2024
Her own spiky guitar riff leads her out of her stupor, like an energetic dog barking its depressed owner out of bed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Sometimes Patterson did not notice him until he had been in the trailer for several minutes; he would be staring at the cards, sunk in a stupor.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
I imagine this wasn’t an easy performance to make work: cunning, stupors and stratagems — how do you act all of those?
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
For years, despite spending thousands of dollars looking for a cure and being twitted by his friends about his intermittent stupors, he was unable to do anything about his affliction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Relentless, inescapable totalitarianism or the mindless, synthetic stupors of technology?
From Time Magazine Archive
Gooden and the St. Louis Cardinals' ace John Tudor stared each other into stupors, but even Tudor picked himself second for the Cy Young.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other students sat mostly in stupors, worn out from the class, or else were scouring their notes in hopes of discovering they’d done better than they thought.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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