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Recent Examples of slumberous Confederate monuments were not, after all, slumberous. Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020 All differences of excellence, of position, of form are blurred by the slumberous acceptance. Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 With the exception of the minority of people who suffer sudden death, the vast majority of us experience a slumberous slippage from life. Sara Manning Peskin, M.d., New York Times, 11 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slumberous
Adjective
  • January is typically the sleepiest month on the MLB calendar, and the New York Yankees likely won’t disturb slumber much.
    Brendan Kuty, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • When the sun goes down, the South Shore of Lake Tahoe is not a sleepy town.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In Waves takes audiophiles through angelic soundscapes, club-ready tracks, joyful beats, driving bass, hypnotic toplines and more.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The hypnotic music, scents, and sounds of flowing streams set the tranquil tone.
    Sheryl Nance-Nash, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Try providing the breed with a calmer and more soothing environment.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Neither Austan Goolsbee’s predictably soothing words nor the Friday index rebound were enough to offset fully the quicksilver repricing of Federal Reserve’s rate-setting path for next year, nor the 3% dump in the S & P 500 on Wednesday that followed the Fed’s decision and outlook release.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The movie starts at a drowsy hilltop picnic, which is interrupted when a prince (Denzel Washington, magnificent) and his military entourage—including Branagh and Keanu Reeves, as the duke’s bad-hearted brother—ride into view, galloping up the Tuscan road in thrilling slow motion.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Fatigue Being tired at the end of the day or drowsy at bedtime is not the same thing as fatigue, which is more severe than simply feeling tired.
    Nancy LeBrun, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Une Chambre à Soi in Château La Coste’s Richard Rogers gallery is inspired by Virginia Woolfe’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own and features more than fifteen artists visualising a soporific journey from sunset to sunrise.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But now there's something distinctly soporific about it all, and certainly not the kind of writing Capote himself would have wanted associated with his name.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
Adjective
  • In it, bands play a quieter part of the song, or start softly, setting a somnolent mood before blowing it apart with a sudden shift in volume and dynamics, with little more warning than some transitional guitar feedback.
    Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Returning to the somnolent complacency of years past is not an option.
    Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
Adjective
  • The man, identified as 62-year-old Donald Lucas Sr., was arrested by the narcotic unit during a meth investigation, officials said.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Naloxone, a synthetic medicine used to treat narcotic overdose, was found in the trunk.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 3 Dec. 2024

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“Slumberous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slumberous. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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