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torpor

noun as in lethargy

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On June 14, I applied to renew my passport, bracing for months of frustration with bureaucratic apathy and torpor.

While their immune systems keep the fungus at bay when the bat is active, the fungus gains the upper hand once the bats enter their state of torpor.

Owen’s torpor — his froggy, monotone way of talking, his incessant, suppressed discomfort — is draining.

He was in one of his reptilian torpors again.

What unfolded was the exact opposite of the torpor in Calcutta.

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