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Adjective
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Meanwhile, his house is in an almost cartoonish state of disrepair and falling down around him, while his attempts to upgrade his furniture leads him to buy a shabby armchair on Craigslist that was previously occupied by a comatose, and incontinent, old lady.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026 -
But the best part of the show is the chill-to-the-point-of-comatose voice acting.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Finn does his best to keep an eye on his somnambulant sister, and in one scene, follows her clear across town to the basement where the Grabber had held him.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
8 Oct. 2025
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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
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Epstein had previously been placed under suicide watch after he was found semiconscious in his cell with a noose around his neck more than two weeks earlier.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
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An emaciated man sat by a child stretched out semiconscious on a cot, where two other small children were receiving oxygen.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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“Sleepwalking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleepwalking. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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