Definitions
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- noun A person who
talks unconsciously in theirsleep .
Etymologies
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Examples
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( "Darling, you are snoring.") "Je suis désolée," * I apologize, just to appease him -- for everyone knows you can't reason with a sleeptalker.
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Now, there is just Turner's agonised monologue, muttered like an exceptionally lucid sleeptalker, and sometimes as if through clenched teeth or an appalling migraine.
Perestroika 2010
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The algorithm gives voice to its own electric delirium, doing so without either cognition or intention so that, much like a sleeptalker, the device automatically blurts out statements that, while coherent in grammar, are nevertheless aberrant in meaning.
Poetic Machines 01 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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"Je suis désolée,"* I apologize, just to appease him--for everyone knows you can't reason with a sleeptalker.
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She’s in her housecoat and house slippers moving through the kitchen like a sleepwalker and a sleeptalker, not giving him the barest glance.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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She’s in her housecoat and house slippers moving through the kitchen like a sleepwalker and a sleeptalker, not giving him the barest glance.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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She’s in her housecoat and house slippers moving through the kitchen like a sleepwalker and a sleeptalker, not giving him the barest glance.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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