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Noun
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Severe infections may include aches, headaches, elevated fever, lethargy, rashes, and blood in the urine or stool.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025 -
Symptoms in pets can include vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and lethargy.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
2 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The system demands that voters, already weighed down by electoral fatigue and apathy, return to the polls for runoff elections.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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Star Wars and Marvel have faced similar backlash and apathy.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This sense of professional inertia can have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only your job performance but also overall well-being.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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This recognizes that, because of the effects of inertia, considerable (unnecessary) effort must be expended by cyclists to get back up to speed after coming to a complete stop at an intersection with no traffic.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Eastwood stars in both, and both suffer from some of the late-career languors that started to creep into his movies after a certain point, mostly due to a tendency to let dialogue scenes play on and on without much regard to rhythm or pace.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
1 Nov. 2024
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That there was this kind of languor, a little bit of maturity.—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
12 Sep. 2024
Noun
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This is our deliverance from mediocrity and indolence — our greatest national security threat.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Jan. 2025
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The United States, however, has lost its capacity for self-government through stupendous intellectual indolence and the exaltation of puerilities, like Tayor Swift or Tom Brady, over thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and Montaigne.—
Armstrong Williams,
Baltimore Sun,
23 June 2024
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But neither was there the ho-hum, dutiful lassitude that usually accompanies second inaugurations, like Barack Obama’s in 2013.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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But the opinion, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., went way further than necessary to insulate Trump from prosecution — not simply before the election, which the court, by its lassitude, had nearly guaranteed, but forever, even in the event that President Biden wins reelection.—
Ruth Marcus,
Washington Post,
1 July 2024
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