inactivity

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inactivity
Noun
  • The business seems to be in a weird state of inertia and denial.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Using these, scientists were able to model the moment of inertia and Vesta's interior structure.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • By law, the president can only fire members for cause, such as neglect of duty or malfeasance.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 16 May 2025
  • Poverty can place children at risk of abuse and neglect.
    Kathryn Maguire-Jack, The Conversation, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The Reagan airport tragedy last winter showed us the cost of inaction.
    Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., laid out the stakes of inaction at the beginning of the hearing.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The rescission power fell into disuse under Bill Clinton.
    The Editors, National Review, 10 Mar. 2025
  • So many mainstream film characters, especially ones assigned to women, act like windup dolls that sputter into disuse when their scenes end.
    Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Volunteers advocate for children who have been removed from their home from either abuse, abandonment or neglect.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 May 2025
  • The children’s parents — identified as a 53-year-old German man and his 48-year-old American wife, who also owned a German passport — were arrested and charged with domestic violence with habitual psychological abuse and child abandonment, according to police, per ABC.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 1 May 2025
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“Inactivity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inactivity. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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