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Adjective
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Their bodies were found lifeless June 2 with plastic bags over their heads and evidence that their hands had been zip-tied near their father's truck in a campground.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
26 June 2025 -
The following morning, the family discovered the lifeless body of the fourth kitten.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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Now, more than ever, the interactions—sometimes bordering on unproductive conflict—between different generations, shaped by different educations, study paths and historical contexts, risk becoming a missed opportunity.—
Davide Sartini,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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An unproductive offense has been the biggest drag on the Padres’ attempts to challenge the Dodgers in the division over the past month.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
20 June 2025
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Sometimes those special circumstances go against national pride: there have been fallow years for British tennis in which the club has decided not to award all the wild cards, instead giving the spots to the players ranked just outside the cutoff for entry.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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The picture arrives, of course, at a fallow time for Marvel, after a string of duds and an abortive attempt to introduce a new superhero phase following the climactic, stage-clearing (and absurdly lucrative) battles of Avengers: Endgame.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
23 July 2024
Adjective
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But just because a stock has been quiescent for a while is no reason to disdain it.—
John Dorfman,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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In the early 2000s, the U.S. invasion of Iraq united Iraqi Kurds in a quest to preserve their autonomy, and the rivalry in greater Kurdistan eclipsed the quiescent Kurdish rivalry within Iraq.—
Behnam Ben Taleblu,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Nov. 2017
Adjective
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Waititi never recommitted to Akira and the project has been dormant ever since.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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The Guardians can boast of solid pitching, but their offense has been dormant.—
Bernie Pleskoff,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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Save some dough by filling the bottom third of the pot with inert materials such as blocks of polystyrene foam from product packaging or packing peanuts (secured in plastic bags).—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 June 2025
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The defense argued that Gutierrez Reed could not have anticipated that a box of inert dummy rounds had been contaminated with a handful of similar-looking live bullets.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
24 May 2025
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Meanwhile, the rapid rise in prominence of a US military base in western Saudi Arabia that for years sat idle suggests conflict with Iran had been anticipated, The New York Times reported.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
30 June 2025
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While a growing number of listings sit idle in the United States' housing market, as buyers are kept on the sidelines by sky-high prices and prohibitive borrowing costs, multimillion-dollar homes are still going under contract in some of the most expensive parts of the country.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
14 Oct. 2024
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“Stagnating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagnating. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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