suspended animation

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Recent Examples of suspended animation One solution long championed by science fiction is suspended animation, or putting humans in a hibernation-like sleep for the duration of travel time. CNN, 28 Dec. 2020 With the agreements with Mexico and Central American in suspended animation during the pandemic, Title 42 is necessary stopgap that Biden will come under intense pressure from pro-immigration groups to reverse. The Editors, National Review, 15 Nov. 2020 Four days after the election, the U.S. presidential race hovered in suspended animation Saturday as the long, exacting work of counting votes brought Democrat Joe Biden ever closer to a victory over President Donald Trump. Staff and Wire Reports, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2020 New York City, where nearly 24,000 people have died from COVID-19, remains in a kind of suspended animation more than six months after the disease raced across its five boroughs and crippled America's largest metropolis. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2020 See All Example Sentences for suspended animation
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Noun
  • His older brother, Mario, is also a HSV player, albeit one serving a four-year suspension for a doping violation.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But Indonesia’s House of Representatives said that the license suspension would not cause severe impact on such users.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Though the Russian Federation’s ongoing international ban will presumably deny all-time NHL goals leader Alex Ovechkin a last chance to win an elusive gold medal, the action in Italy next February should not lack suspense.
    Rob Rossi, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The impeccable direction and cinematography, the masterful suspense, and the pitch-perfect performance of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates all combine to create not just one of the best horror movies of all time, but one of the best films of all time, period.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025

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