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Adjective
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Their bodies were found lifeless with plastic bags over their heads and evidence that their hands had been zip-tied near their father's truck.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
1 July 2025 -
What was once a quiet, natural landscape is now a stark, lifeless installation of metal and wire.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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This highlights that unstructured venting can quickly pull conversations into unproductive loops.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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Here's a detailed timeline of events, which shows the White House was aware of the pause in real time and Trump's decision to reverse the action -- following an unproductive phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and a subsequent series of brutal Russian assaults on Ukraine.—
Justin Fishel,
ABC News,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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With 2026 being a fallow year — meaning Glastonbury will take a year off to let the land on Worthy Farm regenerate — the festival pulled out all the stops this time around with powerhouse headlining performances and a few genuinely exciting secret sets.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
30 June 2025
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Sometimes those special circumstances go against national pride: there have been fallow years for British tennis in which the club has decided not to award all the wild cards, instead giving the spots to the players ranked just outside the cutoff for entry.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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But just because a stock has been quiescent for a while is no reason to disdain it.—
John Dorfman,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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In the early 2000s, the U.S. invasion of Iraq united Iraqi Kurds in a quest to preserve their autonomy, and the rivalry in greater Kurdistan eclipsed the quiescent Kurdish rivalry within Iraq.—
Behnam Ben Taleblu,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Nov. 2017
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After lying dormant for years, the match was revived in NXT by Triple H, becoming a popular annual event for the brand.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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In fact, the trade market was surprisingly dormant league-wide after widespread anticipation that a hectic two nights were in store.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
26 June 2025
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Originally supposed to fly Sierra Space Dream Chaser test flight, but payload switched to an inert mass simulator because of potential Dream Chaser delays beyond October launch date.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 July 2025
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The anguish lacing through the satire-obsessed ’90s burns like a hangover, at the same time mocking and cherishing the inert residue of hope that history might keep moving forward.—
Alice Bolin
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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The Brewers were idle Thursday and trail the NL Central-leading Chicago Cubs by two games in the loss column.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
11 July 2025
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Many of these homes, which were badly needed due to the ongoing housing shortage across the country, are now sitting idle on the market because high mortgage rates and growing economic uncertainty are keeping buyers on the sidelines.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
14 Oct. 2024
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“Stagnating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagnating. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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