as in motionless
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Recent Examples of moveless
This made us—with all our human, mortal limitations—rather like the God of all those past centuries of belief, or should that be credulity: the God who retained and stored away everything in his motley, moveless time, in which nothing was new or old, remote or recent.
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Margaret Jull Costa, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Margaret Jull Costa, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moveless
Adjective
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That evolution reflects the documentary’s broader theme: legacy is never static.—
Jeff Benjamin,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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And the presentation became more uniform, the original handheld approach replaced with a static head-on shot of the subject at the center of the frame, the Closet’s glorious crammed-to-bursting shelves surrounding the person on both sides and behind.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, Johnson remained stationary in the far right lane.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2025
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Microbes that can form such a mass — and many can, as biofilms are one of the planet’s most common life forms, encompassing 40% to 80% of all prokaryotic life — gained the ability to anchor themselves to stationary surfaces, such as the grooves of our teeth or the bumpy exterior of a boulder.—
Carrie Arnold,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Moveless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moveless. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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