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as in sleepy
slow to move or act
a torpid sloth that refused to budge off its tree branch
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as in numb
lacking in sensation or feeling
my tongue and throat remained torpid for a time following the endoscopy
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Recent Examples of torpid
This lowers the body temperature so much that a torpid hummingbird maintains a hypothermic threshold that nears death.
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Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
Inside, though, Ingrid is in a state of torpid discontent, unhappy with her circumstances but unsure of how to change them.
—Sarah Chihaya, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022
The water was so torpid that a thick layer of dust had settled onto it, giving it a cheerless brown tinge.
—Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
The ongoing slog has come to symbolize the dilemma multinationals face when confronting Germany’s notoriously torpid bureaucracy.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2022
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Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
Inside, though, Ingrid is in a state of torpid discontent, unhappy with her circumstances but unsure of how to change them.
—Sarah Chihaya, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022
The water was so torpid that a thick layer of dust had settled onto it, giving it a cheerless brown tinge.
—Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
The ongoing slog has come to symbolize the dilemma multinationals face when confronting Germany’s notoriously torpid bureaucracy.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2022
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The once relatively sleepy city, long overshadowed by its neighbor Como, has now woken up—and established itself as a destination unto itself.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025
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This southern island in the country’s archipelago is a sleepy place, a welcome respite from the development, sometimes overdevelopment, going on elsewhere in the region including the country’s main island Providenciales.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Get weather and fire alerts via text:Sign up to get current wildfire updates by location 'Everybody at this point is just numb' Jimmy Dunne, a longtime Palisades resident who raised his children in the area, was one of the lucky ones.—
Isaiah Murtaugh,
USA TODAY,
10 Jan. 2025
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After a while, the doctor becomes almost empathetically numb or oblivious to the emotional state of the next patient that comes in the door.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Dune: Part Two, another fantasy of third-world power struggle, is dull but dedicated to globalism.—
Armond White,
National Review,
17 Jan. 2025
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Homebuyers continued to wait for mortgage rates to drop last year and sellers, especially condo owners, waited for buyers to show up in a meaningful way during what was another sluggish year for the state’s housing market, according to a monthly update from the Colorado Association of Realtors.—
Aldo Svaldi,
The Denver Post,
21 Jan. 2025
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The production, directed by Mina Morita, renders the play in solid, if slightly sluggish, fashion.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Once the clock strikes 12, much of the TV audience is asleep, especially older viewers who make up the bulk of the news audience.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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This way, her team could get a fairly precise idea about the brain fluid dynamics when mice were awake and asleep.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Jan. 2025
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In the wake of Tuesday night’s home humiliation at the hands of the lottery-lusting Portland Trail Blazers, before the current team sanction, coach Erik Spoelstra was asked about the third consecutive largely lethargic performance from Butler.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2025
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Santos has given nice spot minutes for the Warriors recently, pumping energy and hustle into a team that has too often been lethargic.—
Anthony Slater,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
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This large, circulating cloud of material, including hot gases enriched in oxygen, was found to be absent from quiescent galaxies that had ceased star formation.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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There is no guarantee that the crisis will remain quiescent for much longer.—
Richard Nephew,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Torpid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torpid. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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