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Recent Examples of catatonic Do not let despair or doom and gloom put you into a catatonic funk. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025 Things were going fair to middling with his candidacy until Biden’s catastrophic, catatonic debate performance in June, which caused a major Democratic freak-out and resulted in his grudging departure from the ticket and endorsement of Harris. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024 Netto and Schindler take pains to point out the irony of Iris’ predicament: Iris has emerged from the emotionally catatonic state that she’s been in since the day of her son’s accident… just to wind up in a physically catatonic state at the site of her son’s accident. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024 But Folie à Deux uses Arthur’s catatonic depression to emphasize what his path to stardom really was: a killing spree that landed him in jail and well on his way to being executed by the state. Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for catatonic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catatonic
Adjective
  • But with a blank canvas on which to build a new version of Dedeaux Field, there was some upside.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
  • The Yankees’ bullpen also kept the Rangers off the board, as Mark Leiter Jr., Devin Williams and Luke Weaver all threw blank innings in the low-scoring affair.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Sadly, the Skirvin closed its doors in the late '80s and sat vacant for two decades.
    Anne Roderique-Jones, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025
  • While the bureau received an exemption to Trump's hiring freeze and posted job openings this month for temporary workers to conduct survey interviews, more than one-fifth of its leadership positions are vacant, according to a public staff roster released earlier this month.
    Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 23 May 2025

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“Catatonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catatonic. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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