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Recent Examples of unbusy
Or, even better, until some productive, unbusy scientist clones me a sister-wife.
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Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019
Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbusy
Adjective
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Sitting Too Much Living a mostly inactive lifestyle is linked to chronic inflammation.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Verywell Health,
17 Apr. 2026
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Conversely, people who were relatively inactive also benefited from adding just a little bit of higher-intensity exercise to their daily routines.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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With the Predators loss, the idle Anaheim Ducks clinched a playoff berth for the first time since 2018.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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That is not a picture of an institution sitting Scrooge McDuck-style on idle cash.—
Marc Joffe,
Daily News,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The Acura then collided with several parked, unoccupied vehicles before settling in a private driveway.—
Austin Turner,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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The proposal provides for some exceptions, such as residences unoccupied because of military service, disasters or an owner’s death.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In one panel, children maimed or exhausted by labor stare out bleakly; in another, unemployed men in a small industrial town sit or stand around.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
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Three-quarters were unemployed and about the same proportion had a family income of less than $25,000 per year.—
Elizabeth Cooney,
STAT,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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While other Caribbean islands can be sleepy (too sleepy, sometimes) at night, the fun is just getting started when the sun sets in Curaçao.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Apr. 2026
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In theaters Friday after a strong reception at SXSW last month, the genre-scrambling, darkly comic neo-western casts him as Ulysses, a principled small-town sheriff who takes a temporary posting in a sleepy corner of Minnesota called Normal.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Local Democratic politicians were strangely quiescent, despite a pre–Catahoula Crunch poll showing that nearly 80 percent of New Orleans residents opposed the deployment.—
Daniel Brook,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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But the astronomers suspect this kind of bursty young galaxy in the early universe may someday evolve into what's known as a massive quiescent galaxy in the modern-day cosmos.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
21 Nov. 2025
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“Unbusy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbusy. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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