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Adjective
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And Sexyy’s performances are lifeless, devoid of the color and insouciance that made Hood Hottest Princess a romp.—
Stephen Kearse,
Pitchfork,
21 Apr. 2026 -
There were signs of life from a mostly lifeless offense over the last two games.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Other than his walk, Hernandez has been particularly unproductive at Coors Field.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
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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
Adjective
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The company has about 150 solar projects in its North American portfolio with the bulk of those developments on fallow land, hayfields and former farmland.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Amend the soil and leave it fallow.—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The area also contains over 900 active or dormant volcanoes, which is about two-thirds of the world’s total.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Apr. 2026
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Avoid fertilizing late in the year, as the foliage will be killed back by frost and the plant will be going dormant.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 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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The placebo effect refers to the improvements in symptoms that patients experience after they’re given an inert treatment like a sugar pill.—
Phil Starks,
The Conversation,
21 Apr. 2026
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There was a plot in which a wrestler named Triple H drugged Stephanie and married her inert body.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Flying into Singapore over the weekend gave me a front row seat to the literal sea of cargo ships sitting idle in the Port of Singapore.—
Leonie Kidd,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2026
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There’s also The Italian Restaurant located within the 6,100-square-foot entertainment complex that serves classic Italian comfort dishes (during idle times while dining, kids can feel free to jaunt toward the arcade for a round of air hockey before the plate of rigatoni is served).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 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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“Stagnating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagnating. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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