as in static
incapable of moving or being moved
an examination of the slides of nonmotile cells
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Adjective
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Electric roads are viewed as part of a broader charging ecosystem rather than a replacement for static chargers.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025 -
Still, the pipeline may only barely put Mesa’s water budget in the black under the static reduction.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Outfitted with a messy wig and white clothes, the robot remains motionless before suddenly collapsing to all fours and crawling, evoking scenes straight out of The Ring or The Exorcist.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Tanev immediately dropped to the ice and was motionless for a bit before medical personnel quickly wheeled out a stretcher.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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There’s no forgetting the (quite long) final scene in which the shirtless star does his best to sell a battle between himself and a mostly immobile Satan as nothing less than the ultimate clash between good and evil (while one of Thor’s songs plays on the soundtrack, naturally).—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Except when the characters are actually working among the vines, the cast’s performances are largely immobile and their speech declamatory.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But beneath their still, spiny exteriors, these towering cactuses are actually vibrating, and researchers have developed a new tool to record their frequencies.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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The image of David was a still frame from a Hamas propaganda video.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Nonmotile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonmotile. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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