stupor

Example Sentences

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How much can a film criticize big tech’s spell over children when the long-running “Toy Story” franchise is similarly designed to lure its audience into a stupor, and for increasingly diminishing returns.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026

But a recent FAA-funded study found two chemicals that can: formaldehyde, a known carcinogen and neurotoxin, and tridecane, which can cause headaches and stupor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 14, 2025

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

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

The first year she was nominated, “I was very much in a stupor, like, ‘What?’

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2024

But Fiver was lying in a deep stupor.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams