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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

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

It’s a testament to Shannon’s direction that he fully commits to submerging us into Janice’s unimaginable emotional stupor, even when that gutsy approach ultimately proves to be the film’s undoing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

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

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

Nina must have brought him out of the stupor she’d placed him in.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

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

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

Most of the Americans were in stupors or asleep.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut


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