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lethargy

[leth-er-jee] / ˈlɛθ ər dʒi /


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Economists suspect the lethargy could last a while, too.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

The twins developed severe symptoms, including blue lips, lethargy, diarrhea, and sunken eyes, according to the civil suit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Symptoms of adder bites in dogs include pain and swelling, bruising, lethargy, drooling and vomiting.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

Guardiola responded to City's lethargy by sending on Rodri for the injury-plagued Spain midfielder's first appearance since November 2, when he played for one minute against Bournemouth.

From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026

After gathering a small mountain of firewood, her mania was fading, leaving her in a content, almost dreamy lethargy.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

For the students from the Child School, who have varying forms of learning or social disabilities, the daring river exertion seemed to relieve them of whatever physical lethargies they had.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2011

All its lethargies mingle their nightmares, its slumbers are a crowd, and from its human bodies lying prone there arises a vapour of dreams.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

Thus in my journey during those long hours I found it—agonies subsiding into lethargies, and these breaking again into frenzy.

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch

Instances of parturition or delivery during sleep, lethargies, trances, and similar conditions are by no means uncommon.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle


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