torpor

A sluggish U.S. labor market appears to be coming out of its torpor.

From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026

The best is that there’s reason to hope that somewhat higher rates are starting to shake Japan out of its multi-decade torpor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

The Pacers never looked like shaking off their early season torpor on Monday despite facing a Detroit team missing both Cade Cunningham and Tobias Harris.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

On June 14, I applied to renew my passport, bracing for months of frustration with bureaucratic apathy and torpor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

Now was the time to ask about the trip, but the same torpor that had overtaken Father also affected Tendai.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

During one of these afternoon torpors, I came upon a word: acedia.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2019

He was in one of his reptilian torpors again.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

In international relations diplomacy has been a boyishly lawless affair of family intrigues, commercial and territorial brigandage, torpors of pseudo-goodnature produced by laziness and spasms of ferocious activity produced by terror.

From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw

But the fumes and torpors of grief and pain were this morning dispersed.

From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

In literature no less than in politics the discovery meant the final breaking up of the old world, and the slow birth of a new one through alternate torpors and agonies.

From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail