unresponsiveness
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A medically-induced coma is when sedatives are used to put a patient into a reversible state of deep unresponsiveness, to try and protect the brain from traumatic damage.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Mr. Giuliani’s unresponsiveness, the creditors said, “leads one to question what he is hiding.”
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
That’s important because the current board has been widely criticized for its opacity and unresponsiveness.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
She kissed him good night tenderly, with magnanimous concession to his unresponsiveness; there was no room for her in his thoughts to-night, and she had been so longing to see him!
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
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