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somnolent

[som-nuh-luhnt] / ˈsɒm nə lənt /


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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

Telfaz11 started out on YouTube, where its videos hooked young Saudis looking for a hip alternative to the somnolent broadcast television.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

The Herald Examiner building remained standing, albeit in a somnolent state.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2021

There is a rather famous account of a World War I pilot who reported finding himself floating through a school of apparently somnolent swifts high above the clouds.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 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