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Recent Examples of coma
The latter is in a deep coma with tubes across his face.
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Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
Several bystanders were injured, with one reportedly sustaining a near-fatal skull fracture that left her in a coma for 24 days.
—John Russell, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
The lamppost fell into the crowd below, injuring four people, including a woman who was left with a near-fatal skull fracture and was in a coma for 24 days.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Read the stories As part of the therapy, now discredited, injections of insulin would plunge a patient into deep coma as the brain was starved of sugar.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
Several bystanders were injured, with one reportedly sustaining a near-fatal skull fracture that left her in a coma for 24 days.
—John Russell, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
The lamppost fell into the crowd below, injuring four people, including a woman who was left with a near-fatal skull fracture and was in a coma for 24 days.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Read the stories As part of the therapy, now discredited, injections of insulin would plunge a patient into deep coma as the brain was starved of sugar.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coma
Noun
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In fact, channeling your rage and frustration into creative expression could be the most constructive way to repurpose those ghosts from your teenage diaries that have been woken from their slumber.Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Nov. 2024
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The singing, chanting, and DIY percussion serves to not only symbolically rouse the trees from their slumber but to scare off bugs, blight, and whatever bad spirits might endanger them.Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 26 Nov. 2024
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Remind employees of the importance of adequate rest, and encourage them to prioritize sleep as a critical part of their health.Stephen Sokoler, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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And while the phrase snail essence may conjure images of slime, rest assured: the ingredient is silky, rather than slimy.Kiana Murden, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
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Many executives pride themselves on functioning with just three to four hours of sleep and often rush through meals, opting for high-fat, high-sugar foods.Basel Ramlawi, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Flow Space consulted with sleep experts and doctors to shed light on all of the sleep changes your body experiences in your 40s and during menopause.Taylor Lane, Flow Space, 16 Dec. 2024
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All the while, Owens blurs hypnosis and seduction, speaking in bursts of two or fewer syllables that beckon the body and mind to loosen.Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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But with hypnosis, compassion turns inward and towards your body.Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
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Throughout months of hibernation, these 2-3 week periods of torpor are interspersed with one or two day bouts of arousal.Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Nov. 2024
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Last week’s attacks seem to have awoken French politicians from this torpor.Jonathan Laurence, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2015
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The surprise offensive by a rebel coalition has dramatically changed the landscape of the civil war, which Mr. al-Assad had fought to a standstill, and Iran’s control over some of Syria’s territory.Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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But by that time, a collapse in uranium prices had brought the sector to a standstill, so mining never commenced.Dylan Baddour, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Coma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coma. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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