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
Grief opens the way to a reckoning with place, stasis and deferred desire.
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Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
This second season is once again poking at inertia and stasis and how romantic relationships can crumble into a series of self-destructive choices.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
And Ben Ahlers, who plays the adult Happy, comes with that actor’s famously warm smile and chirpy demeanor, slowly worn down here before your eyes, as the permissible frolics of youth turn into the stasis of one going nowhere.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
The repetition doesn’t conjure stasis so much as the struggle to find a way forward.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
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Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
This second season is once again poking at inertia and stasis and how romantic relationships can crumble into a series of self-destructive choices.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
And Ben Ahlers, who plays the adult Happy, comes with that actor’s famously warm smile and chirpy demeanor, slowly worn down here before your eyes, as the permissible frolics of youth turn into the stasis of one going nowhere.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
The repetition doesn’t conjure stasis so much as the struggle to find a way forward.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stasis
equilibrium
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Mary disrupts Clark’s equilibrium with the Backrooms by refusing to validate his excuses for his behavior, fully calling out his failings, his petty assholery, and his glib, solipsistic lies.—
Tasha Robinson,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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That equilibrium was sustained not by the courts or the Voting Rights Act but by behavior.—
Bruce Sibley,
Time,
29 May 2026
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“Stasis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stasis. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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