torpor

Researchers believe warmer summers may be reducing the need for torpor, leaving dormice with more energy for feeding and breeding.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Alas, even the raised stakes cannot shake them from the emotional and intellectual torpor that bedevils Chekhov’s celebrated characters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

A sluggish U.S. labor market appears to be coming out of its torpor.

From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026

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

Seabiscuit floated along in a state of contented, bovine torpor.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

But the fumes and torpors of grief and pain were this morning dispersed.

From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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 J. W. (John William) Mackail

No man sees him sleep, for he makes bread—or worse, brownie—at night, and he rings a bullock bell loudly at half-past five in the morning to rouse us from our animal torpors.

From On the Track by Henry Lawson