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
On June 14, I applied to renew my passport, bracing for months of frustration with bureaucratic apathy and torpor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025
Ernest Orlando Lawrence, overlooking the 184-inch cyclotron at what is now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. shaken off the torpor observed by Livingston in midsummer and were all operating again.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
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 McFee, William
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 Shaw, Bernard
In literature no less than in politics the discovery meant the final breaking up of the old world, and the slow birth of a new one through alternate torpors and agonies.
From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)
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