lethargy
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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 in dogs include lethargy, vomiting and diarrhea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
Depression was assessed through a questionnaire asking about depressed mood, disinterest, restlessness or lethargy during the previous two weeks.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
Spanish newspaper Marca wrote Madrid have "forged a new identity" and now "dominate, suffocate and subdue their opponents" -- a far cry from the lethargy of Ancelotti's final season.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025
She felt cut away from him, each of them living and breathing in separate spheres, he bored and spiritless in Nsukka, she bored and spiritless in Lagos, and everything curdled in lethargy.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
Instances of parturition or delivery during sleep, lethargies, trances, and similar conditions are by no means uncommon.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Have we ever seen lethargies, or swoons, or syncopes last whole years together?
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry
For my part, when I behold a fashionable table, set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes.”
From Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew by Berens, Edward
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 Klopsch, Louis
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