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  • noun Plural form of stupor.

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Examples

  • Shortly thereafter, dazed, confused and utterly befuddled lawyers, suffering from concussions, technology-induced stupors and other massive head injuries, wandered around the desert of public opinion, expressing consternation in the face of the perplexing, yet wholly predictable reality that technology existed despite their repeated attempts to ignore it.

    Daily Record--Legal Currents Column 2009

  • At other times she slept through long stupors, waking stunned and numbed, scarcely able to open her heavy eyes, to move her weary limbs.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • Shortly thereafter, dazed, confused and utterly befuddled lawyers, suffering from concussions, technology-induced stupors and other massive head injuries, wandered around the desert of public opinion, expressing consternation in the face of the perplexing, yet wholly predictable reality that technology existed despite their repeated attempts to ignore it.

    Law & Technology 2009

  • Shortly thereafter, dazed, confused and utterly befuddled lawyers, suffering from concussions, technology-induced stupors and other massive head injuries, wandered around the desert of public opinion, expressing consternation in the face of the perplexing, yet wholly predictable reality that technology existed despite their repeated attempts to ignore it.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2009

  • He described an erratic young man who would talk excitedly about his theories of "conscious dreaming" — but would also fall into unnerving, long stupors of silence and stare fixedly at his buddies.

    Suspect Fixated on Giffords John R. Emshwiller 2011

  • Shortly thereafter, dazed, confused and utterly befuddled lawyers, suffering from concussions, technology-induced stupors and other massive head injuries, wandered around the desert of public opinion, expressing consternation in the face of the perplexing, yet wholly predictable reality that technology existed despite their repeated attempts to ignore it.

    Technology Strikes--Oblivious Attorneys Stunned 2009

  • Mr. Goldman suffers hallucinations and lengthy stupors of remorse—Aura was an inexperienced body-surfer, and her neck was snapped when a big wave smashed her into the hard sand below shallow water.

    Honoring a Love Lost to Tragedy Sam Sacks 2011

  • Shortly thereafter, dazed, confused and utterly befuddled lawyers, suffering from concussions, technology-induced stupors and other massive head injuries, wandered around the desert of public opinion, expressing consternation in the face of the perplexing, yet wholly predictable reality that technology existed despite their repeated attempts to ignore it.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog 2009

  • No wonder you have to resort to drug or alcohol induced stupors .....

    Nixon to Bush 41: Find 'attractive' women 2009

  • It's not as if they made this choice while in drunken stupors; they planned it!

    Kid's tattoos irk parents 2010

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