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Recent Examples of moribund President Trump’s unprecedented firing of a third board member has now left the NLRB without even the ability to form the simple majority needed for votes, effectively leaving it moribund. Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025 Money market accounts were moribund through the low-interest years, but not today. Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025 New York’s big guns were silent, especially on the power play, which has been moribund for a month. Arthur Staple, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025 But by the time the nation gained independence in 1975, the economy was moribund; in 2010, unemployment hovered near 80 percent. Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for moribund
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moribund
Adjective
  • And in this parish of 12,000 Catholics from more than 100 countries, those who make a living as interpreters fear their jobs will soon be obsolete.
    Motoko Rich, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • As highlighted by McKinsey and the MIT Sloan School of Management, this distinction has become obsolete over the last few years with tech leaders now integral to business strategy, driving innovation and delivering value.
    Rosalba Carandente, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • His work in building the Augment MBA program is a response to a problem many business schools don’t recognize: the risk of over-reliance on archaic frameworks instead of education in service of action.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • Federal efforts would be better spent intervening, even by use of a consent decree, to dismantle an education system that locks poor, overwhelmingly minority students in archaic education bureaucracies based on their income and ZIP code.
    Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • In an effort to address some of those worries, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced plans to overhaul the antiquated telecommunications, radio and surveillance systems.
    Vanessa Romo, NPR, 14 May 2025
  • Leaks from this antiquated sewer system are polluting Rock Creek and threaten the public health of all those who come in contact with it.
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Bengtsson had discovered a medieval monastery likely dating back to the late 12th century, according to the release.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • Delap’s cannon shoulders struck fear into a baffled division, like a medieval army who looked across the battlefield and realised that the opposing forces had technology far beyond theirs.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • The existence of any prehistoric apex predators in the islands of the Caribbean used to be doubted.
    Ashley Belanger – May 16, ArsTechnica, 16 May 2025
  • The original show gave the prehistoric reptiles the nature documentary treatment, offering glimpses of a world that was ruled by dinosaurs millions of years ago through the magic of CGI and animatronics.
    Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025

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“Moribund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moribund. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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