fugue
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Yet investors didn’t show the same anxiety once trading started, sending the indices into a sort of fugue state.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Not yogurt eaten in a fugue state between Slack pings.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026
The chorus, in the old musical forms of canon and fugue, demands light.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023
Ben, who didn’t partake and has now entered a fugue state, where he relives memories, or perhaps near-memories, of his time with an ex-boyfriend.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
A fugue is an extremely clever and essentially more grown-up version of the same thing.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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