stupor

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

Ronan, better known as a painter in New York’s contemporary art world, chronicles a collection of still lives who jostle themselves out of an emotional stupor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025

Since then residents have been in some kind of stupor, dazed, angry and tired.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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

“We’re so legit it hurts,” Sahil said, holding up his glass of lemonade, thankfully having shaken himself out of that stupor.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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