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Noun
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The numbers should shake the lethargy off the stock.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
8 Jan. 2026 -
Cereulide, the toxin found in the formula products, is produced by some strains of Bacillus cereus and can cause food poisoning symptoms, including severe or persistent vomiting, diarrhea, or unusual lethargy.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
7 Jan. 2026
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In a clinical study of tradipitant, side effects were infrequent and mild, with a small percent of users reporting sleepiness and fatigue.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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This can lead to feeling ill, with symptoms such as sleepiness, physical fatigue, headache, and more.—
Ashley Olivine,
Verywell Health,
5 Jan. 2026
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That means less oxygen reaching your brain—and more sluggishness.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Time,
18 Dec. 2025
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In January 2025, the two companies moved beyond a traditional client-consultant relationship to form a dedicated joint venture, a move designed to bypass the sluggishness of typical corporate structures.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
16 Dec. 2025
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Friends and family suspect drugs, laziness or bad moral character.—
Kat McGowan,
NPR,
31 Dec. 2025
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Here are some tips to fight back against the flawed belief that rest is just laziness in disguise, during the holidays and beyond.—
Stacy Shaw,
Fortune,
26 Dec. 2025
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And one of the only times that a true sense of road weariness seemed to creep in.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
9 Jan. 2026
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Maintaining player buy-in while addressing tactical issues and subsequently evolving is more taxing when the initial freshness of a manager’s arrival dissipates and some weariness sets in.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
1 Dec. 2025
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No wilting languor on this veranda — for that matter, no veranda either — just ferocity, desperation, and, of course, brutal desire.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
4 Dec. 2025
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The area induces a certain languor, and this languor is the connective tissue that gives it coherence.—
Johny Pitts,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Nov. 2025
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Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Dec. 2025
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The Johnson Administration said the AFDC rewarded indolence, and condoned non-marital child bearing.—
Stephanie Land,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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The only people for whom this situation isn’t terrifying are us, the audience, who feel nothing but the purgatorial torpor of sitting through a movie that’s too afraid of its own concept to do anything truly provocative with it.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
13 Nov. 2025
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Though the idiom of abuse has changed, the critics are as hostile as ever, while their targets react only with curious torpor.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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