stagnating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stagnating
Adjective
  • Going back to last July this team is 14 games under .500 and is completely lifeless.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
  • Her lifeless body was discovered a few days later in a Tampa motel room rented by Rogers, according to the motion.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • For others, especially those unaccustomed to emotional introspection, conflict may still feel threatening or unproductive, best avoided or minimized.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Like Gonzalez, neither Joe and Tirso Ornelas were largely unproductive before returning to El Paso, albeit over much smaller samples.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • According to Fox 13, agricultural producers can earn up to $390 an acre foot to fallow crops or enact other conservation measures.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Iran’s nuclear program goes fallow under international pressure.
    ASSOCIATED PRESS, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But just because a stock has been quiescent for a while is no reason to disdain it.
    John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • The cause of the blaze has not been determined, but the company has acknowledged that it may have been sparked by a faulty dormant power line operated by Edison.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
  • Perhaps the Flyers believe that a certain segment of the fan base that’s been dormant through what has been a mostly incompetent decade will awaken with the return of one of the organization’s most popular all-time players now running the day-to-day operations at ice level.
    Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • Pure gold is inert in Earth’s mantle and tends to stay there.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • 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, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • So, out of the $403 million payroll, $93.75 million worth of pitchers are idle (not counting Ohtani).
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 22 May 2025
  • Built for Efficiency: Save Smarter, Live Freer The Apex 300 leads the class in power efficiency, sipping just 20W in idle mode—ideal for stretching backup runtime.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 6 Jun. 2025.

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