narcoleptic
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To study the disease, scientists at Stanford in the 1970s and 1980s used narcoleptic dogs that collapsed paralyzed when excited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Meanwhile, the squad is composed of misfits, hotheads, third-year “seniors” and even a narcoleptic tumbler with a solid split.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
In the HBO drama "The Sopranos," when Tony Soprano's sister Janice is hitting bottom, she moves in with a born-again, narcoleptic hippie who plays in a Christian rock band.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022
I was working for the QVC cable shopping channel in 1992 selling... strange devices in the middle of the night to a large, narcoleptic, interesting audience.
From Fox News ● Nov. 12, 2019
“Anyway, Ohio’s not that smart and sleeps like a narcoleptic, so I guess he and my dad were kind of made for each other.”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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