variants or slumbrous

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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
  • The final picture is a solo shot of Ocean Rain, sleepy and sweetly tucked into a coral blanket embroidered with her name.
    Clea Haran, Parents, 23 June 2025
  • By the end of that summer, the sleepy months had become prime box-office real estate.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Your use of long takes and hypnotic camera movement has become a signature.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
  • To achieve the scene's hypnotic slow-motion effect, Anderson asked his actors to move unnaturally fast, leading del Toro to question whether the technique would translate on screen.
    EW.com, EW.com, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • There is something very soothing about sitting down and putting pen to paper, like drinking a hot cup of tea or relaxing in a sauna.
    Nancy Marshall, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Veterinary Vision says that hearing your voice is very soothing for blind dogs, so talking to your pup often can help comfort them.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Safety upgrades include a lane-centering system, a surround-view camera system, rear automatic braking, forward collision warning with automatic braking, adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assistance, lane departure warning and a drowsy driver monitor.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 18 May 2025
  • Studies have shown that teens who experience a lack of sleep could suffer negative consequences, including an inability to concentrate, poor grades, drowsy driving incidents, anxiety, depression, and many more.
    Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • Prince Valiant Much of Spaceballs' plot kicks off when Daphne Zuniga's Princess Vespa runs away from her soporific betrothed, Prince Valium (the mighty Jim J. Bullock), at the altar.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 June 2025
  • Pritzker’s fighting words contrast with the soporific public statements coming from our universities.
    Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Alan Fox’s script is rife with clunkers (the somnolent Ilfenesh Hadera, as David’s wife Pam, explains with haunting detail which items of decor on the dining table can be moved where by the police), and the intrusive score is the equivalent of garish wall-to-wall carpeting.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 20 May 2025
  • While there are a half-dozen or so worthy books on the list, most of them are somnolent doctoral theses that probably should not have been acquired in the first place.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • As for new whistleblower Reed’s allegations involving Endo’s leading narcotic painkiller — a far more dangerous drug than Lidoderm — the Justice Department took them seriously at first.
    Bob Fernandez, ProPublica, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Drug and narcotic violations also saw an increase, rising by 3.7%.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 May 2025

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“Slumberous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slumberous. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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