How to Use quiescence in a Sentence
quiescence
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Most volcanoes spend much of their lifetime in a state of quiescence, but Stromboli bucks that trend.
—New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
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After a few years of quiescence, all signs point to mega-mergers reappearing on the horizon.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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Even if the summer could bring higher prices, though, the market’s quiescence today in the face of such provocations shouldn’t be dismissed as a mere curio.
—Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
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When the body falls ill, comorbidities strike from quiescence.
—Daniel Barron, Scientific American, 21 June 2020
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The one hope of quiescence is that the attacker, thinking its quarry has expired, will stop attacking.
—Jeff Wise, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2010
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If the cell is doing well and reproducing regularly, this quiescence is a good way for the viral genes to make more copies of themselves.
—The Economist, 20 Aug. 2020
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That long period of quiescence seems to fly in the face of the popular belief that serial rapists and killers are incapable of stopping.
—Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
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The long period of quiescence came from shorter-term factors that, for a time, outweighed the more conducive conditions.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
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But his quiescence on the violence in Charlottesville has had, in many ways, a more profound and unsettling effect.
—Glenn Thrush and Rebecca R. Ruiz, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2017
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After a few puffs last week, the volcano is now releasing a relatively constant stream of ash and steam, this after ~10 months of quiescence.
—Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2009
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Ebola is an RNA virus, which emerged in Uganda this summer after four years of relative quiescence.
—David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
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But over the next eight years, as solar activity built to a peak and then regressed back toward quiescence, the sun emitted no high-energy gamma rays at all.
—Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2018
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Institutions famed for their trading prowess, such as Goldman Sachs, have seen profits dented by the quiescence of the markets.
—The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
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But in the meantime Trump’s party is giving every impression of quiescence.
—Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Mar. 2018
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The resulting public quiescence can make the status quo seem permanent.
—Sofia Fenner, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
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And though the guest bedroom can exist in a state of dark quiescence approaching that of an isolation chamber, the rest of the basement shares with some New York apartments the unfortunate tendency of sound bleed-through.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
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After a period of relative quiescence, the machine is back on full throttle.
—Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
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The short clip is well worth a watch, if only to get a sense of how vast and powerful volcanoes like Nyiragongo are, even during periods of relative quiescence.
—Robin Andrews, Forbes, 31 May 2021
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At the time, bedbugs were spreading around the United States—after a long period of quiescence—so a lot of research was focused on understanding and controlling the insects.
—Popular Science, 10 June 2020
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Like quiescence, aggressive defense is a tactic of last resort.
—Jeff Wise, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2010
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But our collective quiescence is the product of a misconception.
—Gary Hamel, Quartz at Work, 17 Aug. 2020
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And Diana, from whom nothing was expected but quiescence and children, became a model for seizing power as a populist.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2020
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In this time of human quiescence, the creaking of some potentially dangerous faults may be detected better than ever.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
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There, at a point of gravitational quiescence called L2, Webb will begin what astronomers say will be revolutionary studies of the universe.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2016
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This is straining a 60-year-old covenant, under which the regime provides security, free public services and a tolerable standard of living in return for its people’s quiescence.
—The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
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Prior to this three-quarter century quiescence, the volcano was vociferous, producing dozens of potent eruptions over the two centuries.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2015
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Regardless of their type, the oligarchs have helped Putin stay in power through their political quiescence and economic support of the Kremlin’s domestic initiatives.
—Stanislav Markus, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2022
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The possibility of support from China and Russia—coupled with the quiescence of Western democracies—will allow many governments to be less responsive to their citizens and cater to a narrow elite.
—Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2023
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The composer’s 1947 score, for a Merce Cunningham ballet, depicts the seasons winter through fall as quiescence, creation, preservation and destruction (a Prelude to Winter brings it full circle).
—Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2017
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The Cole attack’s overseer certainly noticed the American quiescence.
—Warren Bass, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
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