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Adjective
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While a previously comatose Max wakes up in Hawkins, Holly’s attempt to escape Vecna’s Pain Tree in the Abyss is unsuccessful, and she’s returned to Henry’s childhood home in his mind.—
Derek Lawrence,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Jan. 2026 -
Sisters Ellie and Chris clash over how to care for their comatose mother, who Ellie visits every week, in-between assassination attempts from Chris.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2026
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Finn does his best to keep an eye on his somnambulant sister, and in one scene, follows her clear across town to the basement where the Grabber had held him.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
8 Oct. 2025
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Later Clay sits handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser when the cops stop a mute, possibly somnambulant woman who has three vertical eye slits in her face.—
Ed Park,
The New York Review of Books,
14 Mar. 2023
Adjective
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An emaciated man sat by a child stretched out semiconscious on a cot, where two other small children were receiving oxygen.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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When first responders reached the scene, Glass was semiconscious.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
28 July 2025
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“Sleepwalking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleepwalking. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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