torpor
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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
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
The plan had been to feed the beasts and chain them in their torpor, just as the queen had done.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
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
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
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Grade 12, List 2
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