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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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If the account looks suspicious, inactive, or brand-new, avoid it.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The linebacker has primarily been seen doing rehab work on a side field across the last few weeks and was inactive last week.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There’s some idle speculation in the films about where the Xenomorphs sit on the evolutionary ladder, and nearly every Alien story at some point deals with the question of whether synthetic creations care about their makers.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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The display can smartly scale down to 1Hz when idle and now comes with a new anti-reflective coating.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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About 32% of the Wilson’s seats went unoccupied.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
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At night, the entranceway filled with homeless people who came inside to sleep; addicts smoked fentanyl in unoccupied apartments.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Now there are more unemployed than jobs available which has placed the power back in the hands of the employer.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Open Jobs For instance, open jobs, when taken with the measurement of total unemployed, will tell you about the size of the iceberg below the surface.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Except that four years later, on The Hills, Lauren Conrad passed it up for a guy with frosted tips and sleepy vibes.—
Megan Angelo,
Glamour,
11 Sep. 2025
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New York — Oracle, a large but generally sleepy cloud-computing company, just had an absolutely bonkers day on Wall Street.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Throughout most of modern history, it was thought that prudent government debt management involved bringing down the ratio of debt to GDP during quiescent periods of growth in order to store fiscal ammunition for the next crisis.—
Kenneth S. Rogoff,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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Khanna is one of a number of progressive congressional Democrats encouraged by the party to appear in red-district town halls in an attempt to rebut impressions that the party is quiescent in the face of Trump’s onslaught.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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“Unbusy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbusy. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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