supineness

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Noun
  • More severe cases of salmonellosis may include a high fever, aches, headaches, lethargy, a rash, blood in the urine or stool, and in some cases may become fatal.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • Signs that your pup may be unwell include significant weight loss; chronic vomiting or diarrhea; weakness and lethargy, says Knutsford Veterinary Surgery on its website.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That seems to have been largely true, but the reasons for that philosophy were arguably less noble than the company claimed: seen through another lens, its deliberate oblivion to what its newsrooms were producing looks more like apathy to journalism writ large.
    Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
  • The song topped international charts and broke a decade of Grammy apathy for her with wins for Record of the Year and Best Solo Pop Performance.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • The second use case — using stablecoins as a means of payment — is less advanced, largely due to regulatory inertia.
    Georgii Verbitskii, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • The global economy moves with inertia, so immediate dramatic change is only part of an uncertain timeframe.
    T. Nelson Thompson, Baltimore Sun, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • This languor expands in the velvety air.
    J.T. Townley, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025
  • During an epidemic that otherwise made life hectic and clamorous, the militarized languor of the residents was glaring precisely because Liberians who were already displaced from the recent Civil War felt abandoned by the government.
    Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The idea of Irish indolence fused with a quasi-religious faith in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The government insisted that the corn be sold rather than given away (free food would merely reinforce Irish indolence), and those who received it had little idea at first how to cook it.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The result of this lassitude is that cars still rule the streets.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025
  • 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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“Supineness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supineness. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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