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Recent Examples of stasis The work’s glacial pace, indebted to the drones of Indian raga, inspired Riley to experiment with stasis and repetition. William Robin, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025 Players also find a stasis net, which temporarily slows robots so that Diana can easily hack them without fear of being struck. Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025 Ultimately, the subject is a pretext, and the film paradoxically presents in linear narrative an aesthetic experience of ek-stasis, achieved through the breaking of its narrative frame. Roy Scranton august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025 Additionally, the autopsy found Bell had stasis dermatitis and edema. Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stasis
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equilibrium
Noun
  • They are defined under equilibrium conditions where the system is stable over time.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But while the market appears balanced, the transition from summer languidity to fall busyness could set the stage for a sharp transition in dynamics and an equilibrium shock.
    John Walkup, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Stasis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stasis. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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