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Adjective
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From almost any vantage point, the Salton Sea appears lifeless — a gray expanse rimmed with salt and windblown dust.—
Josh Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026 -
The Red Wings’ lifeless loss to the Rangers also clinched playoff spots for the Lightning and Buffalo Sabres, who snapped a 14-year post-season drought.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Companies won’t need whole teams to coordinate in clunky, unproductive meetings; one AI with a few humans will get the job done cheaper and faster.—
Solo Ceesay,
Rolling Stone,
10 Apr. 2026
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This distortion creates a dynamic that blurs the line between authority figure and peer ally, which is unhealthy, unproductive and simply not the role of public schools.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Amend the soil and leave it fallow.—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
20 Feb. 2026
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Its 2019 and 2022 editions took place in late fall — a move designed to boost tourism and staycations at downtown hotels on what is typically a fallow November weekend.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Adding defensive end Rashan Gary will help bolster a pass rush that was dormant for stretches at a time last season, and bringing in safety Jalen Thompson will give some reliability on the back end that Dallas desperately needed after giving up the most passing yards of any team in the NFL in 2025.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Apr. 2026
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While homeowners fear their brown lawns mean dead grass, Cline and others say lawns that look brown in spring are merely lying dormant.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2026
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Local Democratic politicians were strangely quiescent, despite a pre–Catahoula Crunch poll showing that nearly 80 percent of New Orleans residents opposed the deployment.—
Daniel Brook,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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But the astronomers suspect this kind of bursty young galaxy in the early universe may someday evolve into what's known as a massive quiescent galaxy in the modern-day cosmos.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
21 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Lassere and Ross-Lonergan, along with thousands of others, have devoted their careers to investigating this tiny and almost perfectly inert speck.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Apr. 2026
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That’s because the moon is much more geologically inert than our rowdy planet.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Buffalo snapped a minor 2-3-2 slump to tie the Lightning atop the division with 102 points, and two ahead of idle Montreal entering the final 10 days of the season.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Padres’ entire system will be idle on Monday.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Pruning also thins nonproductive stems, allowing light to reach the interior of the tree and ripen the fruit.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Dec. 2025
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The key is refusing to engage in circular or baiting conversations, instead setting boundaries and exiting nonproductive conversations.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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