speechless
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According to Byfield, the decision devastated his mother so deeply that she fell into a speechless fit and died only days later.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was near speechless: “I, as speaker, never—we didn’t even consider that anybody would do that,” she told Politico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“I was speechless at first,” safety Quentin Lake said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
When 17-year-old student Max Avena visited the site of New York's fallen Twin Towers, hearing the first-hand accounts of survivors of the deadliest attacks on US soil left him "speechless."
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Shock left me speechless for several moments until I asked, finally, “Really? All three thousand of them?”
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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