torpor
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A sluggish U.S. labor market appears to be coming out of its torpor.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
The best is that there’s reason to hope that somewhat higher rates are starting to shake Japan out of its multi-decade torpor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
The Pacers never looked like shaking off their early season torpor on Monday despite facing a Detroit team missing both Cade Cunningham and Tobias Harris.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
While their immune systems keep the fungus at bay when the bat is active, the fungus gains the upper hand once the bats enter their state of torpor.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
A dangerous lassitude hovered just out of range in his body; it was accompanied by a defeatist torpor.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
During one of these afternoon torpors, I came upon a word: acedia.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2019
He was in one of his reptilian torpors again.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
Such torpors are accompanied by an obscure labour of the brain, which is inexpressibly wearying.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
In international relations diplomacy has been a boyishly lawless affair of family intrigues, commercial and territorial brigandage, torpors of pseudo-goodnature produced by laziness and spasms of ferocious activity produced by terror.
From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw
When he sank into one of his torpors, the quiet woman holding his pulse, he felt he was getting even with the wife and daughter who had made him so unhappy in past days.
From Command by William McFee
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