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Infections may also bring respiratory symptoms like sneezing and lethargy.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025 -
My friend points to her husband’s lethargy as a sign of illness, though neither of them detected it at the time.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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But during the difficult years, when a horrible cocktail of apathy and toxicity set in, attendance was notably lower.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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The resulting apathy among fans, however, has yet to affect the players themselves — at least that’s what was said publicly.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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More modern power resources, like wind, solar, and batteries, don't involve inertia, because they are digitally controlled.—
Julia Simon,
NPR,
8 Oct. 2025
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The inertia continues despite economic and regulatory headwinds across the world that threaten to impact sales and product strategies.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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In early Christian thinking, its connotations of languor and listlessness, within the spirit no less than the body, lent it the status of a sin—a turning aside from God for the sake of earthly sorrow.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Infield singles by Jake Cronenworth and Tatis in the eighth inning, both of which caromed off pitcher Gregory Soto, broke up the offensive languor but did not result in the game being any closer.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Sep. 2025
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The world does seem full of unhappiness and tragedy, much of it human-caused, either through outright cruelty or through the indolence of our illusions.—
Philip Metres
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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Their waiter’s indolence meant a long wait even for menus, yet neither of them let drop a word of complaint.—
Jim Shepard,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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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
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As a result, pricing has stayed relatively stable despite the sluggishness.—
John Walkup,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Still, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled last week that the central bank may cut its key interest rate at its meeting next month, amid signs of sluggishness in the job market.—
Alex Veiga,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2025
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What started as the follow-up to D’Angelo’s 1995 platinum debut, Brown Sugar (written and recorded entirely by D’Angelo in his mother’s house in Richmond, Virginia), became five years of study at Soul University, complete with classes, pranks, gossip and equal amounts of discipline and laziness.—
Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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To Gregg, taking extra bathroom trips or using the far printer aren’t simply a matter of laziness.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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