as in lifeless
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Adjective
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The video shows a man trying to drag Zakariya’s lifeless body before he too is shot.—
Zeena Saifi,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025 -
All along, the film lingers on the statues and busts, lifeless figures watching the horrors wrought by a house that’s unnervingly alive.—
Gayle Sequeira,
Vulture,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Cubs got rid of several unproductive bench players and are still in the process of overhauling the bullpen.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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Restlessness, dissatisfaction or even unproductive attempts to reinsert themselves into their former workplace can result from this scenario.—
Michel Koopman,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This announcement follows a few fallow years for a brand that had a huge presence in the audio-visual and hi-fi markets.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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In Wide Sargasso Sea, Bertha is imagined as a girl originally named Antoinette, raised in Jamaica on a fallow sugar plantation after the abolition of British slavery.—
Ilana Masad,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This large, circulating cloud of material, including hot gases enriched in oxygen, was found to be absent from quiescent galaxies that had ceased star formation.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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There is no guarantee that the crisis will remain quiescent for much longer.—
Richard Nephew,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In one order, Trump directed the federal government to resume construction of the border wall, which was largely dormant under the Biden administration.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
21 Jan. 2025
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Hike Rangitoto Island – the largest and youngest of Auckland’s 48 dormant volcanic cones.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Searches for his name in English and Russian result in very few stories beyond inert press releases from the Emergencies Ministry and brief quotes for Russian state media.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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The end product is almost chemically inert and the radioactive material is dispersed throughout the glass, reducing the amount of radiation emitted.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Another revealed that million-dollar fire trucks sat idle because budget cuts had shrunk the number of mechanics available to fix them.—
Anna-Maja Rappard,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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As a result, much of Europe’s savings either sits idle in domestic banks or chases higher returns in the deeper, more liquid capital markets in the United States.—
Erik Jones,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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But there are productive and nonproductive ways to respond.—
Carlo J.V. Caro,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Mar. 2017
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