as in frozen
not flowing or moving
They were warned against drinking the stagnant pond water.
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Recent Examples of stagnant
The film that reignited the parody genre after a stagnant decade-plus, Scary Movie grossed $278 million worldwide and launched a new era of gross-chasing for Dimension Films.
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
That includes a stagnant running game that has yet to produce a 100-yard game for any player, setting the stage for a race to avoid the cellar this weekend.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Cuomo remained stagnant at 33 percent.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2025
The 24-year-old had many memorable moments on Sunday, with his 59-yard catch and run in the third quarter proving a galvanizing one for a stagnant Packers offense at that point.
—Ben Morse, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
That includes a stagnant running game that has yet to produce a 100-yard game for any player, setting the stage for a race to avoid the cellar this weekend.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Cuomo remained stagnant at 33 percent.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2025
The 24-year-old had many memorable moments on Sunday, with his 59-yard catch and run in the third quarter proving a galvanizing one for a stagnant Packers offense at that point.
—Ben Morse, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stagnant
Adjective
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For context, a simple baguette, which can be made with additives and baked from frozen, is around a euro.—
Vivian Song,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Target’s four-person meal costs less than $20, about the same as in 2024, but substitutes green beans and cream of mushroom soup for French bread and frozen corn — also not an apples-to-apples comparison.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The senior from Cibolo fell face-first to the ground and remained motionless as trainers made their way to the field.—
American-Statesman staff,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Jan. 2026
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Ahead of Waymo’s 2026 self-driving ride-hailing fleet rollout in Nashville, a recent mass power outage in San Francisco left many of its vehicles motionless.—
Stuart Dyos,
Nashville Tennessean,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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On November 27, Threads user @terabear14 posted a still image from the first episode of Stranger Things Season 5, showing a missing poster for Jane Hopper (Millie Bobby Brown)—better known as Eleven—pinned to a hallway wall at Hawkins High School.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Nov. 2025
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The project is composed of 1,500 pages of still-life photos of objects she’s collected throughout her life.—
James Manso,
Footwear News,
19 Nov. 2025
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“Stagnant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagnant. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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