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Noun
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People experiencing more severe infections may also suffer high fever, aches, headaches, lethargy, rashes and blood in their urine.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025 -
Foods high in the amino acid tryptophan (like milk, turkey, chicken, lobster, and certain types of nuts) can also increase lethargy, according to Dr. Ganjhu.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The book’s languor can be ponderous and vintage, more 20th century than 21st.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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This languor expands in the velvety air.—
J.T. Townley,
The New York Review of Books,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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To tunnel inside a Chekhov story is to feel a narrowing that confounds and vexes us—whether through poverty, despair, indolence, or self-delusion—and, simultaneously, to taste the boundlessness of human longing.—
Philip Metres
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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The world does seem full of unhappiness and tragedy, much of it human-caused, either through outright cruelty or through the indolence of our illusions.—
Philip Metres
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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And the torpor is reflected in DraftKings’ NBA title odds for next season, as of Wednesday.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 July 2025
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In the mid-to-late ’70s, when New York was sunk into the torpor of potential economic ruin, the city was fabled in another way.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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