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Noun
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Bailey recommends that people watch out for signs of lethargy, runny nose, or discharge around the eyes.—
Sarah Boden,
NPR,
22 Jan. 2025 -
But to many, there appears to be a lethargy that is out of place with the club’s precarious predicament.—
Rob Tanner,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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Film commentators seem the least qualified to discuss whether this is genuinely new technology, an art form, or just another CIA psy-op — an excuse for apathy, human performance without accountability.—
Armond White,
National Review,
24 Jan. 2025
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Take your choice: frustration, disappointment, apathy, disdain.—
Katie Woo,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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In addition to facing political animosity and policy resistance, reforms to dial down DEI will also encounter institutional inertia.—
Wenyuan Wu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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More news: Yankees, Dodgers, Mets Begin Pursuit of Roki Sasaki While the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres are still listed as the favorites to sign Sasaki, some of that speculation might be inertia.—
Tim Ryan,
Newsweek,
17 Dec. 2024
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Eastwood stars in both, and both suffer from some of the late-career languors that started to creep into his movies after a certain point, mostly due to a tendency to let dialogue scenes play on and on without much regard to rhythm or pace.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
1 Nov. 2024
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That there was this kind of languor, a little bit of maturity.—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
12 Sep. 2024
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The United States, however, has lost its capacity for self-government through stupendous intellectual indolence and the exaltation of puerilities, like Tayor Swift or Tom Brady, over thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and Montaigne.—
Armstrong Williams,
Baltimore Sun,
23 June 2024
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If slouching among privileged white Americans could indicate an enviable carelessness, it was seen as proof of indolence when adopted by the disadvantaged.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2024
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But neither was there the ho-hum, dutiful lassitude that usually accompanies second inaugurations, like Barack Obama’s in 2013.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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But the opinion, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., went way further than necessary to insulate Trump from prosecution — not simply before the election, which the court, by its lassitude, had nearly guaranteed, but forever, even in the event that President Biden wins reelection.—
Ruth Marcus,
Washington Post,
1 July 2024
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“Supineness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supineness. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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