stupor
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All this gives the affair a narcoleptic quality, where flashes of radiance are quickly overwhelmed by everything else as we’re put back into our stupor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Since then residents have been in some kind of stupor, dazed, angry and tired.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025
Those latter respondents have presumably been anesthetized, never set foot in the real world or live in a permanent, chemically induced stupor.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025
You can spend all night talking your friend through a breakup, reminding them that they’re better off without the other person, until you’ve spoken yourself into a stupor on the couch.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2024
When I picked him up, he made no attempt to uncurl, but remained in that state much like a catatonic stupor.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Vocabulary lists containing stupor
Grade 11, List 6
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