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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stagnating
Adjective
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Some people carried her lifeless body to a vehicle, which took it to a hospital.—
Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2026
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How did life emerge on a lifeless planet?—
Adjective
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Gerstner slashed costs and sold off unproductive assets, including real estate and IBM’s collection of fine art.—
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Unless societies can chart a path between recognizing human freedom and acknowledging the peril of depopulation, the conversation about low fertility will be, at best, unproductive and, at worst, actively dangerous for individual rights.—
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Its search comes as the city of Clearwater grapples with how to draw visitors to its quiet downtown, where entities connected to the Church of Scientology have snapped up prime real estate and left it fallow.—
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That means 2025 is well and redeemed at the domestic box office, despite long, slow stretches, and a worryingly fallow summer.—
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As the mercury plummets and back-to-work blues set in for much of humankind in the UK, many other creatures are cosily spending winter in a blissfully dormant state of hibernation.—
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Cornerbacks Kristian Fulton and Nohl Williams were among the Chiefs’ best players for a second consecutive week as both helped shut down a dormant Raiders pass game.—
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But the astronomers suspect this kind of bursty young galaxy in the early universe may someday evolve into what's known as a massive quiescent galaxy in the modern-day cosmos.—
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All of that water weight exerts a steady downward pressure, suppressing rifting and magma flow, and keeping the subterranean region relatively quiescent.—
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Because the dopants are earth-abundant, the synthesis uses conventional solid-state processing, and no inert atmosphere is required, the approach aligns well with existing gigafactory infrastructure.—
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Originally supposed to fly Sierra Space Dream Chaser test flight, but payload switched to an inert mass simulator because of potential Dream Chaser delays beyond October launch date.—
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Dumas has worked for Valero for four years but just moved to the Benicia location from Arizona a year ago, just a few months before the energy company announced a possible plan to cease or idle operations.—
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One such power line, the century-old Mesa-Sylmar, owned by SoCal Edison, had been idle for some fifty years.—
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Pruning also thins nonproductive stems, allowing light to reach the interior of the tree and ripen the fruit.—
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The key is refusing to engage in circular or baiting conversations, instead setting boundaries and exiting nonproductive conversations.—
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“Stagnating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagnating. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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