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Adjective
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After immersing yourself in the Odyssey 3D's stereoscopic 3D for a while, though, going back to a 3D game projected on a flat 2D plane feels a bit washed out and lifeless.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
17 July 2025 -
Chávez looked lifeless at the start, barely throwing a punch until late in the fourth round of their cruiserweight bout at Honda Center.—
Greg Beacham,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2025
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Yet even in this willfully unproductive use of leisure time, work hovers overhead like a ghost.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
14 Aug. 2025
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Allow that the firing of a career bureaucrat may have been unfair and unproductive.—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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June and July are fallow months, and their viewing will increase when football season begins and original episodes of comedies and dramas return, Fuhrer said.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
16 July 2025
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Collectively, New York’s plethora of semi-disused churches represents a trove of fallow square footage, the real-estate equivalent of sacks of cash tossed in a field.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
27 June 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
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That means studying these high-speed outflows from this black hole could help scientists to discover how black hole eruptions transform galaxies from hubs of star birth to a more quiescent existence.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 June 2025
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The drought put brush and other vegetation in the area into dormant, winter-like states, fire behavior analyst Kevin Thompson said during the Monday night meeting.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
12 Aug. 2025
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What should be a tender, feminist-minded story centered on a young woman rediscovering her dormant childhood dreamer turns into a middling melodrama about being with a cute guy in desperate need of her rescue.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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Originally supposed to fly Sierra Space Dream Chaser test flight, but payload switched to an inert mass simulator because of potential Dream Chaser delays beyond October launch date.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 Aug. 2025
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The traditional view is that collagen-rich connective tissues such as tendons, ligaments, and cartilage are effectively inert, with very limited ability to grow or repair themselves after injury.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
11 Aug. 2025
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The error can cause the daytime running lights may dim unexpectedly when the idle start-stop feature cycles the engine from off to on.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
19 Aug. 2025
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But when that noise quiets, the brain doesn’t just go idle.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
13 Aug. 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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