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stupor

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


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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

At the camp, Ibrahim said, adults and children alike often wander around in a sort of stupor.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 27, 2025

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

From BBC Aug. 7, 2025

The first year she was nominated, “I was very much in a stupor, like, ‘What?’

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2024

When I picked him up, he made no attempt to uncurl, but remained in that state much like a catatonic stupor.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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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