stupor

Example Sentences

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How much can a film criticize big tech’s spell over children when the long-running “Toy Story” franchise is similarly designed to lure its audience into a stupor, and for increasingly diminishing returns.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 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

Since then residents have been in some kind of stupor, dazed, angry and tired.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025

About 1 in 150 people will experience more severe symptoms such as high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness and paralysis, according to the World Health Organization.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

He was as though suddenly and joyfully awakened from a dark annihilating stupor.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley