unbusy

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Recent Examples of unbusy Or, even better, until some productive, unbusy scientist clones me a sister-wife. Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbusy
Adjective
  • The lawsuit alleges negligence and argues that the panel was supposed to be inactive but had already been powered up, resulting in Gomez’s electrocution.
    Peter Eisler, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Jacobs started 13 of 15 game appearances last year, after being inactive for the first two weeks of the season and getting claimed off waivers from Denver in late August.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This geek will make one bit of idle speculation here: That grassland planet that’s shown here?
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Another four years later, Shiffrin passed the idle Vonn in Kronplatz, scoring her 83rd win.
    Zack Pierce, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Rodríguez said the cobwebs and ants inside the approximately 6 by 9 feet cell gave the sense that the place had long been unoccupied.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Pieces of the unoccupied home were later seen floating in the river.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In its ruling, the court said that Mr. Kimura, who was unemployed, had tried to kill the prime minister out of a desire to gain public attention.
    Martin Fackler, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Now Harmon is unemployed and worried that the language in his termination letter could impact his ability to get another job.
    Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • At around 270 square miles, Menorca charms travelers with its sleepy villages (like Fornells and Binibeca), history (centuries-old lighthouses and archaeological sites), local wines, and under-the-radar beaches.
    Kathryn Romeyn, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The story of this estate began when the original owners transported two period buildings from Melbourne to a sleepy farm town along the Murray River.
    Natalie Hoberman, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • There is no guarantee that the crisis will remain quiescent for much longer.
    Richard Nephew, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2025

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“Unbusy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbusy. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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