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comatose

[kom-uh-tohs, koh-muh-] / ˈkɒm əˌtoʊs, ˈkoʊ mə- /


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She is tasked with using a new device to remotely pilot the body of a brain-dead patient from California to New England, where the grieving mother of the comatose man awaits.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

As disturbing is what becomes of the narrator himself, who seems nearly comatose as he wanders the streets of Jerusalem in an endless search for the still-missing Gavriel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

But Monica is shaken from this stasis when her son, Martin, goes comatose.

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

On the third day of hospitalization, the man became comatose and was intubated, the report stated.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

And was he stuck in a comatose state?

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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