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Noun
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Deal lethargy kills that electricity slowly, the way a slow leak flattens a tire.—
George Heller,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026 -
Early signs of canine parvovirus in dogs include lethargy, lack of appetite and fever, PetMD said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Dancing with controversial men’s rights activists While Peters has maintained a general apathy toward political thought, that hasn’t kept him from cozying up to some of the most controversial figures in the manosphere.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
8 May 2026
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If the passion wanes, apathy can set in.—
Senior Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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My field has spent a decade pointing to Schedule I, scarce funding, and regulatory inertia as the reasons our progress has been so slow, and those complaints are now being taken seriously at the highest levels of government.—
Peter S. Hendricks,
STAT,
6 May 2026
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The result is a budget that reflects institutional inertia more than the needs of Angelenos.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 May 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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Europe’s lassitude is heightened by internal divisions.—
HENRY FARRELL,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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As something of a companion piece to More, Jacques Deray’s summer thriller La Piscine is a far more dramatic and insidious tale of tropical desire, lassitude, and violence.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
26 June 2025
Noun
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There was noticeable and annoying lag and sluggishness in the Windows desktop and Windows Explorer, not even counting Chrome or Office, with apps taking some 10 seconds to even open.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
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These rapid blood sugar spikes and dips can drain you of your energy, leading to sluggishness, irritability, and increased hunger.—
Kristen Gasnick,
Verywell Health,
21 Apr. 2026
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Score another point for laziness.—
Nathan Edwards,
The Verge,
26 Apr. 2026
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The issue isn’t laziness or indifference.—
Allison Palmer,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Supineness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supineness. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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