as in equilibrium
a condition in which opposing forces are equal to one another
for the time being, the populations of the national park's predators and prey remain in stasis
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Recent Examples of stasis
Players also find a stasis net, which temporarily slows robots so that Diana can easily hack them without fear of being struck.
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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
These include slowed blood flow (venous stasis), vessel wall injury (endothelial damage) and thickened blood (hypercoagulability).
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
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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
These include slowed blood flow (venous stasis), vessel wall injury (endothelial damage) and thickened blood (hypercoagulability).
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stasis
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stasis
equilibrium
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This approach is at its most successful in In Farthest Seas, even as Romano maintains an impossible equilibrium throughout, effectively balancing each word and each epiphany within the musical whole.—
Brian Robert Moore
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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While unemployment remains stable for now, experts warn the equilibrium is fragile, and even a modest rise in layoffs could have wider ripple effects throughout the economy.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Stasis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stasis. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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