stupor
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If their CTmax is exceeded, insects succumb to desiccation, muscle spasms and eventual stupor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
All this gives the affair a narcoleptic quality, where flashes of radiance are quickly overwhelmed by everything else as we’re put back into our stupor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
A more severe and concerning case can cause neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness, or paralysis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
Since then residents have been in some kind of stupor, dazed, angry and tired.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
Even in my own self-absorbed funk, I was worried about her, because as my siblings and I slowly got to our emotional feet, Mommy staggered about in an emotional stupor for nearly a year.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
I imagine this wasn’t an easy performance to make work: cunning, stupors and stratagems — how do you act all of those?
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
Gooden and the St. Louis Cardinals' ace John Tudor stared each other into stupors, but even Tudor picked himself second for the Cy Young.
From Time Magazine Archive
For years, despite spending thousands of dollars looking for a cure and being twitted by his friends about his intermittent stupors, he was unable to do anything about his affliction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Relentless, inescapable totalitarianism or the mindless, synthetic stupors of technology?
From Time Magazine Archive
All summer Perry undulated between half-awake stupors and sickly, sweat-drenched sleep.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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