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The rabbits' lifeless bodies were found lined up next to one another.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
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Our trio discovers their doorman’s lifeless body in the courtyard not long after the introduction of another surprise guest star, Tea Leoni (Madam Secretary).Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 29 Oct. 2024
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But some of those allusions to unproductive mornings and squinting unpreparedness belie an unease with the endeavor of book reviewing itself.Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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Even missing just a few hours of sleep can turn the most stable person into a grumpy, unproductive mess the next day.Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
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During late spring and summer, more than 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares) of fallow sugarcane land in the Everglades Agricultural Area is available for rice production.Jehangir Bhadha, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2024
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Well into the 20th century, pollution was blamed for waters gone ominously fallow.Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
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But in just the last few years, that quiescent period ended in dramatic fashion as a string of major eruptions sent lava flowing toward many of these sites.Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
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In 2019, a routine observation by the Zwicky scope noticed a previously unheralded quiescent galaxy called SDSS1335+0728, 300 million light-years away, suddenly brighten.Daniel Clery, science.org, 3 July 2024
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According to O’Brien and Stringer, a dormant NATO could quickly become a dead NATO, because the alliance would struggle to survive unless the United States clearly displays an overwhelming commitment to Europe.Sumantra Maitra, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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The growing number of APIs has also led to the emergence of shadow and dormant APIs, which pose a significant risk by allowing unauthorized access to private data.Anoop Gupta, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Heff’s struggles with this art — not to mention his inert, unsuccessful attempts to get a girlfriend — only sharpened his image of himself as a beautiful failure.Mark Oppenheimer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
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The three primary culprits this season have been an inert run game, questionable play calling from offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy and quarterback Ethan Garbers logging more than twice as many interceptions (nine) as touchdown passes (four).Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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Just as foreign countries have their cyber spies and software inside America’s critical infrastructure, American hackers and security agencies have not been idle, said Jim Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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Anyone irrigating two or more acres of land that were idle roughly before October 2019 would violate state law.Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
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Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Since health care is often treated as a resource-dependent, nonproductive sector, in order to get things done, the Ministry of Health must negotiate with other central bureaucracies or call on superiors to intervene in cross-sector bargaining.Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2011
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“Stagnating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagnating. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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