stupefaction
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“The Whisper Man” is a particularly egregious example of this stupefaction.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
The carpenters, after the first and second crashes, had crossed themselves in stupefaction, and when the third crash resounded they fell backward from the building onto the chips of wood.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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The Turn of the Screw
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