stupor
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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
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
The first year she was nominated, “I was very much in a stupor, like, ‘What?’
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2024
Her own spiky guitar riff leads her out of her stupor, like an energetic dog barking its depressed owner out of bed.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024
“We have to get out of here. We can’t ruin her special day!” she said, shaking me out of my stupor.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Vocabulary lists containing stupor
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