as in sleepy
slow to move or act
a group of quiescent loungers recovering from the Thanksgiving feast
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Recent Examples of quiescent
Khanna is one of a number of progressive congressional Democrats encouraged by the party to appear in red-district town halls in an attempt to rebut impressions that the party is quiescent in the face of Trump’s onslaught.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
That means studying these high-speed outflows from this black hole could help scientists to discover how black hole eruptions transform galaxies from hubs of star birth to a more quiescent existence.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 June 2025
But just because a stock has been quiescent for a while is no reason to disdain it.
—John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Nee and Dimond’s story was sweet and innocent, its L.G.B.T.Q. allegory quiescent beneath an uncontroversial message of acceptance.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
That means studying these high-speed outflows from this black hole could help scientists to discover how black hole eruptions transform galaxies from hubs of star birth to a more quiescent existence.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 June 2025
But just because a stock has been quiescent for a while is no reason to disdain it.
—John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Nee and Dimond’s story was sweet and innocent, its L.G.B.T.Q. allegory quiescent beneath an uncontroversial message of acceptance.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quiescent
Adjective
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He’s played with the perfect amount of sleepy charm by the always-great Benicio Del Toro.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Odenkirk plays an unassuming substitute sheriff with a troubled past who, after moving to a small, sleepy town to take the temp sheriff post, responds to a bank robbery and unknowingly uncovers something far more explosive.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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After a wholly inactive offseason outside of the draft, Golden State is bolstering its rotation with not a moment to spare until training camp.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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Today, Narrow Way remains closed, and the café's social media accounts have been inactive since the 2022 announcement.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Jeffrey Lewis, a Middlebury Institute of International Studies missile expert, said the Sparrow variant can be equipped with an inert warhead, which may explain the limited physical damage in Doha despite the lethal force.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
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Microbes convert inert nitrogen and phosphorus, for example, into forms life can use to build DNA molecules.—
Katherine Bourzac,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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An exciting, eventful first half, loaded with Dutch opportunities, gave way to a torpid stretch after halftime that, until Gakpo’s goal, had tilted toward Senegal.—
Ben Shpigel,
New York Times,
21 Nov. 2022
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The sequel, by contrast, is torpid, clogged with lengthy but uninteresting tête-à-têtes and generally lacking in vigor, even in the two blowout battle scenes in the final act.—
Kyle Smith,
WSJ,
10 Nov. 2022
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The track opens with a provocative guitar riff, setting the stage for a fierce jungle hunt rather than a dull cat-and-mouse game.—
Billboard China,
Billboard,
1 Oct. 2025
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So much noise, apparently, that Yankees management is pressuring Ticketmaster to keep Sox fans down to a dull roar.—
Steve Buckley,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Quiescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quiescent. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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