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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abeyant
Adjective
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The number of latent cases of tuberculosis in Wyandotte County was 93.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
13 May 2025 -
The three main stages of the disease are primary (exposure), latent (inactive) and active TB, each reflecting whether TB germs are still contained in the lungs or are actively wreaking havoc.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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While the TikTok account had been inactive for months, the last posts on the other accounts directly preceded Tinney’s death.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2025
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The one interesting thing to watch is how well the four teams who got first-round byes perform after being inactive for more than a week.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2025
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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.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 May 2025
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Reusable drones allow operators to train on the actual platform, replacing live warheads with inert payloads.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Take a cutting a few inches long with several leaves to include a node (that brown bumpy thing which is a dormant growing point where the stem meets the leaf).—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
9 May 2025
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Shingles develops in people who have previously had chicken pox, a virus that remains dormant in the body after acute infections clear up and can be reactivated later in life.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
8 May 2025
Adjective
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By adjusting power consumption dynamically, the tool could help reduce unnecessary background activity and extend battery life—especially during idle periods or when apps are not in active use.—
Tahar Rajab,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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That's no idle pledge calculated to preserve market share — Keen has been steadily retooling the business for years to protect itself from sudden shifts in global trade and the vagaries of geopolitics.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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Unsupervised models offer a scalable way to extract insights from data that would otherwise go unused.—
Christer Holloman,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported on April 26 — has been controlled.—
Dan Ruetenik,
CBS News,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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Inside the one-story cinder block building, three state health officials sat along a table at the front of the largely vacant room.—
Margaret Coker,
ProPublica,
14 May 2025
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Fast forward: After three years, the site remains vacant, fenced and undeveloped.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
14 May 2025
Adjective
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But India, citing national security concerns, has publicly provided little evidence linking the attack to Pakistan, which denies involvement and says that Lashkar-e-Taiba is largely inoperative.—
Zia ur-Rehman,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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At the same time, Israel has acted to render what is left of Assad’s navy inoperative.—
Bassem Eid,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Abeyant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abeyant. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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