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Recent Examples of movelessThis 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.—Margaret Jull Costa, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Videos circulating on social media showed driverless cars sitting motionless in active roadways, some blocking lanes and intersections.
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Angelique Brenes,
PEOPLE,
2 Apr. 2026
The rest of his teammates, lined up near the halfway line, either fell to the floor or stood motionless as the home crowd erupted at the same time as the Italian players’ worlds came crashing down around them.
Instead of static exhibitions, the museum’s open studio model gives visitors a reason to return.
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Carl Juste,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
The organizations that succeed will design talent strategies that adapt over time, move beyond static workforce models, and embed AI across the talent lifecycle.
Previous imaging techniques allowed for detailed but stationary images of frozen PIEZO proteins.
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Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
The repeal eliminates all greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks and could unleash a broader undoing of climate regulations on stationary sources such as power plants and oil and gas facilities, experts say.