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Noun
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Signs of avian flu include sneezing, nasal discharge, diarrhea, lethargy, reduced appetite, swelling, or sudden death.—
Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Mar. 2025 -
Signs of hypothermia include weakness, muscle stiffness, lethargy, confusion, and loss of consciousness.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This languor expands in the velvety air.—
J.T. Townley,
The New York Review of Books,
6 Mar. 2025
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During an epidemic that otherwise made life hectic and clamorous, the militarized languor of the residents was glaring precisely because Liberians who were already displaced from the recent Civil War felt abandoned by the government.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
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The government insisted that the corn be sold rather than given away (free food would merely reinforce Irish indolence), and those who received it had little idea at first how to cook it.—
Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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The idea of Irish indolence fused with a quasi-religious faith in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine.—
Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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His erotic energy jolts the community from its torpor.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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Their bodies go into a torpor where their heart rate and metabolism slows 20% to 50%.—
Damon Arthur,
USA TODAY,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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