stupefaction

Example Sentences

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The glory in “Missa Solemnis” is that of stupefaction.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

In malignant conflicts, the kind that leave everyone worse off, there is the thing we argue about endlessly, to the point of stupefaction.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

But the purposeful sensory overload mostly yields head-spinning stupefaction, leaving a viewer feeling like Wile E. Coyote after hitting a mesa wall.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021

I swam in the freezing loch as my family looked on with some stupefaction.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2021

The carpenters, after the first and second crashes, had crossed themselves in stupefaction, and when the third crash resounded they fell backward from the building onto the chips of wood.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan