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stupor

[stoo-per, styoo-] / ˈstu pər, ˈstju- /


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If their CTmax is exceeded, insects succumb to desiccation, muscle spasms and eventual stupor.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

How much can a film criticize big tech’s spell over children when the long-running “Toy Story” franchise is similarly designed to lure its audience into a stupor, and for increasingly diminishing returns.

From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2026

But a recent FAA-funded study found two chemicals that can: formaldehyde, a known carcinogen and neurotoxin, and tridecane, which can cause headaches and stupor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025

Since then residents have been in some kind of stupor, dazed, angry and tired.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025

Leah who, even in her malarial stupor, rushed forward to crouch with the battery in the canoe and counter its odd tilt.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

Most of the Americans were in stupors or asleep.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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