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stupor

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


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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

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 home, it’s Alice Coltrane’s laughter that could break this spell or stupor or almost hagiography.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

"I was in a stupor; I couldn't even speak," the activist remembers.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

I stared out the window at Madame Edith’s garden until exhaustion and hunger produced a kind of stupor in me.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine




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