stupor

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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

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

Those latter respondents have presumably been anesthetized, never set foot in the real world or live in a permanent, chemically induced stupor.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025

She drifted quickly into a deep snoring stupor.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns