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to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition

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and then I somnambulated on—unshowered, unshaven—in the dazzling light

—p.172 by Ben Lerner
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the somnambulistic concentration with which he did it

—p.158 Going to theater, etc. (140) by Susan Sontag
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sclerotic, somnambular epilogue to its ancient ways

—p.88 One Thousand Years of Solitude (86) by George Steiner
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Our responses to crises display a certain somnambular automatism.

—p.243 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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The first thing we do in the morning is grope for our smartphones - straight from sleep into the somnambulance of capitalist cyberspace.

what a beautiful word

—p.408 Start Your Nonsense! On eMMplekz and Dolly Dolly (407) by Mark Fisher
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flock somnambulantly to the local bar as if bitten by vampires

—p.53 by Mark Leyner
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that somnambulistic march's inevitable trickle-down

on I Have a Dream, I think

—p.124 by David Foster Wallace
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This slow, somewhat somnambulistic ascension in self-engendered darkness held obvious delights. The keenest of them was not knowing when the last step would come.

—p.83 by Vladimir Nabokov
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Melville knew the sea, its poising and somnambulism

—p.73 by Muriel Rukeyser
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It's quite clear that there are degrees of somnambular at-homeness (the fashionable word in Cambridge now is inwardness) which I will never attain

—p.97 The Art of Criticism No. 2 (42) by George Steiner
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in general comport themselves in a somnambulistic, inarticulate, unconscious manner

—p.265 The Last Taboo: The Dumbing Down of American Movies (259) by Phillip Lopate
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