sleepwalker
Americannoun
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sleepwalkers
plural
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a person who walks, eats, or performs other motor acts while asleep and is unaware of doing so upon awakening; a person with a disorder characterized by this.
A sleepwalker may do something that could cause injury, such as climbing out of a window or walking into objects.
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a person who acts seemingly without awareness, feeling, aim, or will.
My parents were sleepwalkers, moving about their world as if oblivious to it and to themselves.
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I go outside in my pajamas like a sleepwalker to retrieve my L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
“Like a sleepwalker … I know what I have to do,” Crimo narrated in another rap video posted late last year.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
“Like a sleepwalker jolted awake,” Merriman writes, “it’s as though Siegfried had looked back at everything he’d done and didn’t like what he’d seen.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
Emma Walton, 25, London: At university I always locked my windows and doors at night I’ve been a sleepwalker my whole life.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2016
But I kept close pace with her every step, eagerly watching for our sleepwalker.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2025
Evelyn and Richard also learn about the ypnovátes, the sleepwalkers, a couple who drowned on the island the summer before.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
This is especially true as the artist’s attempts to wake up the sleepwalkers of society have grown into complex and organized activities, involving dozens of bodies working in physical harmony.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 22, 2019
“Yeah, I think being delirious is probably a part of it,” catcher Jonathan Lucroy said of team’s transition from sleepwalkers to mashers in the seventh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2019
Somewhere in that direction is Schulpforta with its dark spires, its bed wetters and sleepwalkers and bullies.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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