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On June 14, I applied to renew my passport, bracing for months of frustration with bureaucratic apathy and torpor.
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While their immune systems keep the fungus at bay when the bat is active, the fungus gains the upper hand once the bats enter their state of torpor.
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Owen’s torpor — his froggy, monotone way of talking, his incessant, suppressed discomfort — is draining.
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He was in one of his reptilian torpors again.
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What unfolded was the exact opposite of the torpor in Calcutta.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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