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
Unlike the dramatic upheavals of the Snowball Earth events or the Cambrian explosion, this period was marked by tectonic stability, climatic stasis and a seeming lack of evolutionary progress.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Political stasis has dogged Paris since snap parliamentary elections were held last June and July.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
Despite the subtropical trappings, his stasis has a fundamental ordinariness, and that turns his trouble in paradise into a more universal call to stop sleepwalking through life.
—Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
When women remain so vastly underrepresented – holding just 28% of all congressional seats, stasis elections like this one postpone the progress necessary to achieve gender parity in political officeholding.
—Kelly Dittmar, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Political stasis has dogged Paris since snap parliamentary elections were held last June and July.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
Despite the subtropical trappings, his stasis has a fundamental ordinariness, and that turns his trouble in paradise into a more universal call to stop sleepwalking through life.
—Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
When women remain so vastly underrepresented – holding just 28% of all congressional seats, stasis elections like this one postpone the progress necessary to achieve gender parity in political officeholding.
—Kelly Dittmar, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stasis
equilibrium
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The most successful travelers on this journey into uncharted hybrid territory will be those who can curate the magic of natural and artificial intelligences intentionally, calibrating the hybrid equilibrium that is the sweet spot where their own unique potential is revealed.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
5 May 2025
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Moral degeneration accompanies the physical; lying is one of the outstanding characteristics, probably due to lack of moral equilibrium.—
Wade Davis,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Stasis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stasis. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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