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stupefaction

[stoo-puh-fak-shuhn, styoo-] / ˌstu pəˈfæk ʃən, ˌstyu- /


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Rogan, wearing his persona as a babe-in-the-woods naif, listened to this nonsense in slack-jawed stupefaction.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

I suspect he absorbed enough of your stress pre-agreement to go through all five stages of secondhand negativity: concern, sympathetic stress, bored stupefaction, desperation, bargaining for silence.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2022

I swam in the freezing loch as my family looked on with some stupefaction.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2021

If it’s a work setting and you’re trying to replicate the familiar, brain-dead stupefaction vibe of a professional meeting, you should consider wearing pants.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2020

Not only did Inka infantrymen have to overcome their initial stupefaction, their leaders had to reinvent their military tactics while in the midst of an invasion.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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