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Adjective
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The silky, microfine texture sets makeup without looking flat or dry, giving your skin a naturally matte (but never lifeless) finish.—
Deanna Pai,
Allure,
23 Oct. 2025 -
Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park was lifeless Monday afternoon — except for the people forced to leave their homes.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Play can look silly or unproductive — that's the point.—
Cas Holman,
CNBC,
21 Oct. 2025
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An undisciplined, unproductive outing against the Jets in London at least momentarily provided reason to hit the pause button.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
17 Oct. 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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The bottom line is that responsibility for today’s rising positive results for COVID-19 and other once quiescent ailments like pertussis runs directly through Kennedy and Trump.—
Thomas Elias,
Mercury News,
27 Sep. 2025
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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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The latent varicella zoster virus lies dormant in the body after a person has chicken pox.—
Amy McGorry,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Planting Too Late The best time to plant fruit trees is in spring or fall, when the trees are dormant and the weather is still mild.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Oct. 2025
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Released in 1938 and technically known as Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), the chemically inert, synthetic polymer is most famous for providing impressively nonstick coatings on cookware and other surfaces.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
22 Oct. 2025
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The success of the The Black Phone 2 bodes well not just for horror, but for original ideas in a production landscape increasingly dominated by reboots, remakes, and adaptations of existing IP — any IP, an even inert children's toy.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The extra federal subsidies put in place in 2021 that made coverage more affordable for millions of people will expire at the end of this year unless a gridlocked and idle Congress acts.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Oct. 2025
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The production of that vehicle could be idle for several weeks, a union leader familiar with the situation told the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 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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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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“Stagnating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagnating. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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