stupefaction

Example Sentences

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The glory in “Missa Solemnis” is that of stupefaction.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

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

After recovering from his stupefaction, “my first impulse was to counterprotest,” Vindman recalled.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2022

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2021

Two months later, however, when Colonel Aureliano Buendía returned to Macondo, his upset was changed to stupefaction.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez