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Adjective
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The case exposed the depressing banality of it all—the man smiling politely at you at the bakery, only to rape your comatose body at night.—
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4 Mar. 2026 -
Torenberg said her book follows a woman who livestreams her life to raise money for the healthcare costs of her comatose sister.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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 22 Mar. 2026.
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