somnolent
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Exoprojection in which the somnolent user is able to assume a conscious awareness of an ideal reality from the past.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Overall, the recording slides between hypnotic and somnolent.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023
Yet even with past experience as a guide, local officials still seem remarkably somnolent.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023
But it also brought youth, diversity and better wages — breathing new life into somnolent towns that had been losing population since the 1930s.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2021
There are three Smart Aids in Englewood, the small, somnolent beach town where I live.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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