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The symptoms of a magnesium deficiency include fatigue, lethargy, nausea, loss of appetite, and muscle weakness.—
Maggie O'Neill,
Verywell Health,
2 June 2026 -
Bluebell poisoning impacts a dog’s heart and causes symptoms like stomach pain, diarrhea, drooling, trembling, lowered heart rate, vomiting and lethargy.—
Amy DeYoung,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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Common signs include loud snoring, waking up gasping, morning headaches and daytime sleepiness that doesn’t improve with more hours in bed.—
Allison Palmer,
Sacbee.com,
18 May 2026
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Shift Work Sleep Disorder, or SWSD, is the clinical name for the persistent insomnia or excessive sleepiness that lasts more than three months and is tied directly to a person’s work schedule.—
Allison Palmer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 May 2026
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But sluggishness in Tableau and the commerce vertical are blemishes.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 May 2026
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When Poor Circulation Needs a Doctor Lifestyle changes can do a lot for everyday circulatory sluggishness.—
Allison Palmer,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2026
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Impatience is a form of laziness, and the cure for impatience is to slow way down.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Defaulting To Generic Strategies And Predictable Patterns My complaint is about context decay and structural laziness.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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But the show wouldn’t have worked without Smart, who imbued Deborah with wisdom and weariness, grit and glamour.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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White’s actorly presence comes through in his vocal performance, lending the beleaguered fighter a sense of depressed world-weariness and poignant ennui.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
23 May 2026
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Trump’s steamrolling of anything, including the Constitution, that might impede his authoritarian project has made the limpness of the Democratic opposition more conspicuous.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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As the camera glides in and around a roller-skating rink, where much of the action takes place, Decker and Shlesinger achieve and sustain a terrific balance of comic velocity and erotic languor.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2026
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Breaking Bad took place in the languor of suburbia and Better Call Saul in the corrupt organs of the legal system, but Vince Gilligan’s latest show Pluribus makes a home out of the stranger substrate of speculative sci-fi.—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Jan. 2026
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The rapid growth of AI data centers is simply forcing us to reckon with many years of indolence.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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Part of his great accomplishment was to take the European aesthetic of beauty and redefine it for the South, with its heat and its billboards, its indolence and humor and thick nights.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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