stupor
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If their CTmax is exceeded, insects succumb to desiccation, muscle spasms and eventual stupor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
But a recent FAA-funded study found two chemicals that can: formaldehyde, a known carcinogen and neurotoxin, and tridecane, which can cause headaches and stupor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025
"I was in a stupor; I couldn't even speak," the activist remembers.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
You can spend all night talking your friend through a breakup, reminding them that they’re better off without the other person, until you’ve spoken yourself into a stupor on the couch.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2024
This seems to jolt Haymitch out of his stupor, and he paws through the box in disbelief.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
I imagine this wasn’t an easy performance to make work: cunning, stupors and stratagems — how do you act all of those?
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
For years, despite spending thousands of dollars looking for a cure and being twitted by his friends about his intermittent stupors, he was unable to do anything about his affliction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Relentless, inescapable totalitarianism or the mindless, synthetic stupors of technology?
From Time Magazine Archive
Gooden and the St. Louis Cardinals' ace John Tudor stared each other into stupors, but even Tudor picked himself second for the Cy Young.
From Time Magazine Archive
All summer Perry undulated between half-awake stupors and sickly, sweat-drenched sleep.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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