stupefaction
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The glory in “Missa Solemnis” is that of stupefaction.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
If it’s a work setting and you’re trying to replicate the familiar, brain-dead stupefaction vibe of a professional meeting, you should consider wearing pants.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2020
Memes from the show have exploded on all platforms, repurposing the stars’ flamboyant styles, ironically adoring its layers upon layers of absurd taste, and sharing the stupefaction of falling into a seven-episode wormhole.
From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2020
And “Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution,” the largest exhibition ever of painting by this superman of the early Renaissance, which now fills the Museum of Fine Arts here, is a perpetual stupefaction machine.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020
Much more clearly than anything in Mr. Ludsbury’s study I could see his face now, grimacing in wide, obsessed stupefaction.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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The Turn of the Screw
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 3
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