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Adjective
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Her first urgent task is to address rising prices and sluggish wages and pass a budget bill to fund those measures, which were delayed by the election.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026 -
Addressing rising prices Her first urgent task is to address rising prices and sluggish wages and pass a budget bill to fund those measures, delayed by the election.—
Mari Yamaguchi,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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After noticing the kids were lethargic and that the gummy worms contained THC, the woman took them to the hospital, according to a police report.—
Gina Lee Castro,
jsonline.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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The film’s rhythm turns lethargic as Kellou has to deal with her promise to take care of Aya, and while the audience is taken on a long journey where some of Kellou’s visions come true, nothing dramatic actually happens.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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One of those efforts, the super PAC Leading the Future, has already raised $125 million from sources including the backers of Palantir and OpenAI for the midterms — huge sums of money for races that were once often sleepy.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Sweden has been sleepy and out to lunch.—
Chris Pronger,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Contemporary research increasingly frames buildings not as inert endpoints, but as active participants within intelligent networks.—
Nathanael Bondu,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2026
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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,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In their own interviews, her castmates range from apathetic to lightly judgmental.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
18 Feb. 2026
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The atmosphere was more apathetic than angry.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But the astronomers suspect this kind of bursty young galaxy in the early universe may someday evolve into what's known as a massive quiescent galaxy in the modern-day cosmos.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
21 Nov. 2025
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All of that water weight exerts a steady downward pressure, suppressing rifting and magma flow, and keeping the subterranean region relatively quiescent.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
12 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Afternoons here are deliciously drowsy, spent dozing in the shade, gently parting calm sea water, or gliding past craggy rock formations in a little motor-boat.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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When a clumsy neighbor passes by or predatory seabirds are near, the penguin parent blinks to alert attention and soon dozes off again, its chin nodding against its chest, like a drowsy driver.—
Nicky Forster,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Spurs are hapless, listless, shapeless, themeless, hopeless.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Tuesday night was one of those situations as the Blackhawks were listless for the better part of three quarters.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Lazyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lazyish. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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