lethargy
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The lethargy in the labor market is highly unusual by historical standards.
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
It could have been very different had Rangers not lifted themselves out of their lethargy after finding themselves behind to goals from Ben Broggio and Finn Yeats after only 26 minutes.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Symptoms in dogs include lethargy, vomiting and diarrhea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
Mr. St. John came but once: he looked at me, and said my state of lethargy was the result of reaction from excessive and protracted fatigue.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
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
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch
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
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
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