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stupor

[stoo-per, styoo-] / ˈstu pər, ˈstju- /


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If their CTmax is exceeded, insects succumb to desiccation, muscle spasms and eventual stupor.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

At the camp, Ibrahim said, adults and children alike often wander around in a sort of stupor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

At home, it’s Alice Coltrane’s laughter that could break this spell or stupor or almost hagiography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025

"I was in a stupor; I couldn't even speak," the activist remembers.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

I put him back into his cage and watched him until the stupor wore off and he began to move around normally.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

I imagine this wasn’t an easy performance to make work: cunning, stupors and stratagems — how do you act all of those?

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020

Gooden and the St. Louis Cardinals' ace John Tudor stared each other into stupors, but even Tudor picked himself second for the Cy Young.

From Time Magazine Archive

For years, despite spending thousands of dollars looking for a cure and being twitted by his friends about his intermittent stupors, he was unable to do anything about his affliction.

From Time Magazine Archive

Relentless, inescapable totalitarianism or the mindless, synthetic stupors of technology?

From Time Magazine Archive

The other students sat mostly in stupors, worn out from the class, or else were scouring their notes in hopes of discovering they’d done better than they thought.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart




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