torpor
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Torpor induction in humans also holds the futuristic potential to support suspended animation for journeys across vast stretches of lonely space.
From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023
Torpor can occur on a daily basis; this is seen in bats and hummingbirds.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Torpor causes green iguanas to lose muscle control, and since they live in trees, they fall out of trees.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2020
As fresh today as it was when it first came out, Torpor joins Twitter personalities like Nein Quarterly and So Sad Today to resist the cult of relentless positivity, cultivating a much-needed counter-aesthetics of despair.
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2015
Torpor had left her; even that intensity of loathing had gone, which for the past half-hour had numbed her very senses and caused her to move and speak like an irresponsible automaton.
From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
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Grade 12, List 2
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