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Recent Examples of motionlessly
Viewers were able to see the security camera footage of the boxer staring deep into the lens' soul and sitting motionlessly in front of it for the duration of the 14-second clip.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for motionlessly
Adverb
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In these quietly stunning essays, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, the daughter of an Army veteran and a schoolteacher, looks back on her upbringing in Buckhannon, West Virginia.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Wealth, meanwhile, has quietly redefined itself upward.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
Adverb
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When Wagner was healthy in the first four games, Cunningham was still getting his points, but getting them inefficiently, struggling to find rhythm against Wagner’s length and discipline.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2026
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Dylan, who shares a room with a leopard gecko, is still steeped in the unambiguous stuff of kid-world.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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“Motionlessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motionlessly. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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