as in somnambulant
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Adjective
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Later Clay sits handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser when the cops stop a mute, possibly somnambulant woman who has three vertical eye slits in her face.—
Ed Park,
The New York Review of Books,
14 Mar. 2023 -
Baseball, too, has plenty of somnambulant qualities: hitters stepping out of the box; the hum of a summer crowd; the snap of the ball in a catcher’s mitt; the muffled screaming as the Pirates concede another season.—
Jason Gay,
WSJ,
20 June 2022
Adjective
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At the hospital, Mike (O’Dowd) learns his comatose wife has a brain tumor that conventional medicine considers inoperable.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Crofts are still comatose, they’re now intubated (aka not breathing on their own), and there’s still only enough of Watson’s treatment to save one of the brothers.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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From left: The toddler discovers her father semiconscious in bed, then runs to get glucose tablets from the living room.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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Officials said he was found semiconscious on the River Trail on June 30 but resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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“Sleepwalking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleepwalking. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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