stupefaction

Example Sentences

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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

But the purposeful sensory overload mostly yields head-spinning stupefaction, leaving a viewer feeling like Wile E. Coyote after hitting a mesa wall.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 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

They stared at each other, he in delight, she in stupefaction.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck