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Adjective
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The results cast doubt on whether the plumes truly carry whispers of alien life, or merely echoes of lifeless chemistry on the frozen shell.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025 -
Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) and Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) discovered Lester’s lifeless body submerged in an Arconia fountain in the Season 4 finale.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The key lies in understanding the difference between unproductive friction (the logistical hurdles that bog students down) and productive friction (the cognitive struggle that is essential for building real knowledge and skills).—
Dave Tucker,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Pick one seemingly unproductive attention-training activity and practice it consistently.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Of course, this fallow year came during the ‘golden generation’ period.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Unless a rice field is fallow that year, or harvested early, that leaves conservationists looking for other options.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
4 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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Often when faced with a trauma, a redwood will swell a bank of dormant buds and woody tissue to create burls.—
Greg Sullivan,
AFAR Media,
15 Sep. 2025
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Note that plants go dormant in areas that experience hard freezes.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike traditional explosive ordnance, the railgun relies on pure kinetic energy for destructive effect, firing inert projectiles at hypersonic speed.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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In addition, cover potting soil in an inch-thick layer of small round pebbles or marbles or other inert material.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Opportunity cost builds in the background while your capital sits idle.—
Gregory Clifford,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The expectation is that the senior will be fully healthy following LSU’s idle week.—
Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 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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