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
The Herald Examiner building remained standing, albeit in a somnolent state.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2021
She grew weak and somnolent, could spend hours lying in the shade looking up at the sun, uninterested in anything else.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing somnolent
"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
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