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somnolent

[som-nuh-luhnt] / ˈsɒm nə lənt /


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Exoprojection in which the somnolent user is able to assume a conscious awareness of an ideal reality from the past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Ham turned a disjointed team into something tough and competitive and changed the entire somnolent Lakers culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2024

Overall, the recording slides between hypnotic and somnolent.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

There is a rather famous account of a World War I pilot who reported finding himself floating through a school of apparently somnolent swifts high above the clouds.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021

There are three Smart Aids in Englewood, the small, somnolent beach town where I live.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs




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