fugue
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Yet investors didn’t show the same anxiety once trading started, sending the indices into a sort of fugue state.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
It allowed Elordi to renounce any hang-ups, surrendering to a fugue state of mind.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
That time spent getting the headboard, for example, was frankly spent in a sort of grim fugue state, wordlessly drifting from place to place in exhausted resignation.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025
Ben, who didn’t partake and has now entered a fugue state, where he relives memories, or perhaps near-memories, of his time with an ex-boyfriend.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
Or is there a kind of cosmic fugue, with themes and counterpoints, dissonances and harmonies, a billion different voices playing the life music of the Galaxy?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing fugue
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