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Recent Examples of immobile Video posted on social media showed victims and debris strewn across a long stretch of road, with at least seven people lying immobile on the ground. Associated Press, Time, 27 Apr. 2025 The face itself looked fine — a bit glowy at times and immobile around the eyes — but its novelty quickly wore off. Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025 When Wells fell, he was held completely immobile for 30 minutes by the tons of wet concrete surrounding him, his suit says. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2025 In the original video shared to his 10 million followers, Lil Nas X kept a positive attitude about the ordeal, joking and demonstrating how half his face had become immobile. Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for immobile
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Adjective
  • These static, profile views often depict male and female elk, sometimes with calves, and occasionally alongside other Ice Age fauna such as mammoths, woolly rhinos, and ostriches.
    Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 24 July 2025
  • Sprawling rural areas and low-income towns fringing the Everglades are lucky to get static.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Don't swerve or leave your lane to avoid an animal, the group said, noting that many accidents happen when someone swerves to avoid animals and hits oncoming traffic or a stationary object like a tree.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 18 July 2025
  • Atlas 15 is supposed to move NOAA, and those who depend on the agency, from an assumption that the climate is stationary, to a recognition that precipitation extremes are in the process of changing due largely to the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transportation.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • The new Champion Golfer of the Year gave another example of his extraordinary superiority in men's professional golf, earning standing ovations from the crowd at Royal Portrush.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 July 2025
  • Iran boasts a large standing force but also relies on proxies and undercover operations that have been severely disabled in recent months by U.S. and Israeli actions.
    Christopher Bodeen, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • However, the seemingly unstoppable force of the Trump administration’s MAHA push may meet the immovable object of decades-old, powerful lobbying barriers from U.S. agriculture, putting a damper on the prospect of cane-sugar Coke in the U.S.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 July 2025
  • Once known for creating stiff, crunchy, and nearly immovable styles, the best hairsprays today are a far cry from the lacquered looks of decades past.
    Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Connor Blades, a project officer with the Barbados environment ministry, finally identified it by taking a video of the snake, then studying a still image from the footage, reports the Associated Press’ Dánica Coto.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2025
  • Typically, law enforcement agencies employ software like Clearview AI after a crime has occurred, comparing a still image against a database of mugshots, driver’s license photos, and social media posts.
    Logan Seacrest, Boston Herald, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Deshaun Watson is also still stuck on the roster with a huge contract that has become unmovable.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
  • And so with that came confidence and an unmovable quality to this character.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 11 June 2025

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“Immobile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immobile. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.

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