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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

Telfaz11 started out on YouTube, where its videos hooked young Saudis looking for a hip alternative to the somnolent broadcast television.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

But it also brought youth, diversity and better wages — breathing new life into somnolent towns that had been losing population since the 1930s.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2021

At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, its melody beyond compare.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020

He would go to work and perform his tasks in a somnolent haze.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner