stupor
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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
At home, it’s Alice Coltrane’s laughter that could break this spell or stupor or almost hagiography.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025
You can spend all night talking your friend through a breakup, reminding them that they’re better off without the other person, until you’ve spoken yourself into a stupor on the couch.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2024
Her own spiky guitar riff leads her out of her stupor, like an energetic dog barking its depressed owner out of bed.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024
But he remembered the kindness in the brown eyes, the patience she’d had with his grief-stricken stupor.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing stupor
Grade 11, List 6
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