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Adjective
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Penn State’s offense was lifeless until the fourth quarter, and Drew Allar threw a pick in overtime with the game on the line.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Sep. 2025 -
Today, Mars, unlike Earth, is a barren, lifeless desert.—
Chris Impey,
The Conversation,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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On many of Seattle’s other unproductive runs, the operation just looks out of sync.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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On the other hand, Pribula often looked unsure of himself in the pocket, which led to unproductive passing plays.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But the ’70s were fallow; observers at the time declared painting was dead.—
Carrie Battan,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
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Of course, this fallow year came during the ‘golden generation’ period.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Throughout most of modern history, it was thought that prudent government debt management involved bringing down the ratio of debt to GDP during quiescent periods of growth in order to store fiscal ammunition for the next crisis.—
Kenneth S. Rogoff,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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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.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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To determine whether a branch is dead or just dormant, scrape some of the bark away.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
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Once the bulb has gone dormant and all the foliage has died down, carefully dig the bulb or tuber out of the ground.—
Erica Browne Grivas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Oct. 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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This significantly decreases the likelihood of collateral damage on the forces deployed by a security guarantor, allowing that partner to be a neutral and idle spectator rather than an active belligerent.—
Omar Al-Ubaydli,
semafor.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Without judgment, integration, and discernment, the technology sits idle.—
Christopher Lind,
Big Think,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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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Buoyed by the early promise of its Dravet therapeutic, the company developed a second drug candidate, STK-002, that similarly targets splicing to turn nonproductive gene transcripts into constructive ones.—
Elie Dolgin,
Discover Magazine,
26 Apr. 2023
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