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Recent Examples of unconsciousness
Until that point, many of Max’s scenes outside of Vecna’s prison had been in a state of unconsciousness; back in Hawkins, she’s been stuck in a two-year trance.
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Nick Remsen, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025
Butler became angry, came up behind her, put his arm around her neck, and strangled to unconsciousness.
—Deborah Kim, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2025
Common spiking drugs including Rohypnol, also known as roofies, GHB, and Ketamine can be covertly placed in drinks causing disorientation, confusion, even temporary paralysis and unconsciousness in those who have been drugged.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 26 Nov. 2025
Victims would have experienced intense shivering, numbness, and growing confusion before slipping into unconsciousness.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Their conversation eventually turned violent, leading Packer to call the police after Sweeney had strangled Dunne to the point of unconsciousness.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Heated engine oil can release carbon monoxide — a gas that can cause dizziness, headaches, even unconsciousness and death.
—Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025
Loomis categorized the different types of brain waves into what became known as sleep states, and created a nomenclature to describe the phases of unconsciousness.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Acute exposure may cause drowsiness, dizziness and headaches, as well as eye, skin and respiratory tract irritation, and unconsciousness at high levels.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
Nick Remsen, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025
Butler became angry, came up behind her, put his arm around her neck, and strangled to unconsciousness.
—Deborah Kim, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2025
Common spiking drugs including Rohypnol, also known as roofies, GHB, and Ketamine can be covertly placed in drinks causing disorientation, confusion, even temporary paralysis and unconsciousness in those who have been drugged.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 26 Nov. 2025
Victims would have experienced intense shivering, numbness, and growing confusion before slipping into unconsciousness.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Their conversation eventually turned violent, leading Packer to call the police after Sweeney had strangled Dunne to the point of unconsciousness.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Heated engine oil can release carbon monoxide — a gas that can cause dizziness, headaches, even unconsciousness and death.
—Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025
Loomis categorized the different types of brain waves into what became known as sleep states, and created a nomenclature to describe the phases of unconsciousness.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Acute exposure may cause drowsiness, dizziness and headaches, as well as eye, skin and respiratory tract irritation, and unconsciousness at high levels.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unconsciousness
Noun
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This inclination toward solitude appears to stem from underestimating others’ willingness to engage and unawareness of how much of a lift a mere social exchange can provide.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, Weinberger added, the greatest treatment obstacle is patients not taking their medications — sometimes due to anosognosia, the unawareness of being ill, which affects 50% to 98% of people with schizophrenia.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Here in the United States, the writer and filmmaker Mike Judge has garnered praise over the course of his career for getting laughs out of broken systems and absurd ignorance in American culture.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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In these special kinds of systems, even a minuscule amount of uncertainty in the measurement of the initial state of a system very quickly compounds into complete ignorance about its future behavior.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
29 Dec. 2025
Noun
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As oblivion approached, with all its attendant possibilities of panic or bitterness, Bowie summoned the generosity to evoke the ordeal of one prematurely dying man while also thinking and creating at the no less vast scale of life itself.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Tarr told his sweeping film in chapters, and the prolonged runtime was crucial to the story’s power, showing an entire world devolving into hopelessness and oblivion, practically in real time.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There’s a dangerous, stubborn forgetfulness in the vaunted Land of Sunshine.—
Elizabeth A. Logan,
The Conversation,
29 Dec. 2025
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More powerful than the noise of breaking news or the forgetfulness of scrolling.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
12 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The challenge is not only unfamiliarity.—
Kristin Olson,
Fortune,
19 Dec. 2025
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Meanwhile, public acceptance remains limited, held back by unfamiliarity and lingering safety concerns.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Dec. 2025
Noun
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But this time her nescience was justified.—
Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
18 Jan. 2025
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Critics pounced on his gaffes questioning evolution and asserting that vegetation caused pollution, but, as with Trump, Reagan’s backers cared little about these blunders or his nescience over public affairs.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
28 Aug. 2020
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