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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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The freedom to move around the object, to mentally embroider a narrative on bits of motionless metal or stone—that’s what makes the form interesting.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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Seated on a stool for the duration, Grande held the audience in her proverbial grip for several motionless minutes.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 June 2026
Adjective
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The more than 1,000-kilometer front line in the four-year war has remained largely static as swarms of drones hinder advances, and both sides have increasingly relied on long-range strikes.—
Illia Novikov,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
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There was not a payload on that vehicle because this was a static fire test.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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But Shahed drones have mainly struck stationary targets such as Amazon data centers and energy facilities, sometimes hitting slow-moving commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
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After transferring the man to police headquarters, he was placed alone in a small holding cell and handcuffed to a stationary bench.—
CBS News Atlanta Digital Team,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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“Moveless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moveless. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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