stupefaction
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Rogan, wearing his persona as a babe-in-the-woods naif, listened to this nonsense in slack-jawed stupefaction.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024
I suspect he absorbed enough of your stress pre-agreement to go through all five stages of secondhand negativity: concern, sympathetic stress, bored stupefaction, desperation, bargaining for silence.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2022
After recovering from his stupefaction, “my first impulse was to counterprotest,” Vindman recalled.
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2022
I swam in the freezing loch as my family looked on with some stupefaction.
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2021
But when he saw himself and his whole family fastened onto a sheet of iridescent metal for an eternity, he was mute with stupefaction.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing stupefaction
The Turn of the Screw
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Pollyanna
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 3
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