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Adjective
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The remaining 80 people diagnosed with TB in Kansas contracted the illness but showed no symptoms, which is called a latent infection.—
Karen Dobos,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2025 -
Even patients treated in the early stages of their disease can still develop metastases months or even years later due to cancer cells that spread early, remain in a latent phase, and escape elimination during treatment.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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All three wells are currently inactive and are not providing water for the community, Kohlmann said.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2025
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This is comparable in effect to regularly smoking and excessive drinking, being obese and physically inactive.—
João Medeiros,
WIRED,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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,
Orlando Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2025
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It was long thought to be an inert compound that wasn't biologically reactive and couldn't cause any problems.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Producing companies can maintain decent drilling programs at $70 oil, but most of the currently active rigs would quickly go dormant at $50 per barrel.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Obligate diapause solves this by ensuring that the whole population goes dormant just before pupation, the final transformation from larva to adult.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This geek will make one bit of idle speculation here: That grassland planet that’s shown here?—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Feb. 2025
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Another four years later, Shiffrin passed the idle Vonn in Kronplatz, scoring her 83rd win.—
Zack Pierce,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The district has more than 2,500 classrooms, meaning 900 are going unused without counting portable classrooms.—
Lina Ruiz,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, audits and complaints show that the local agencies that directly pay and monitor shelter contractors often fail to follow up on reports of unsafe conditions, unused beds or missed housing targets.—
CalMatters,
The Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The town of Rock Springs sprouts out of a vacant landscape of sandstone cliffs and sagebrush in southern Wyoming.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Gaethje also fell short in his second try at winning the UFC 155-pound belt, dropping a submission to Charles Oliveira for the vacant title in May 2022.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Perhaps most notably, both sides deploy decoy vehicles—either inoperative derelicts or inflatable fakes—to draw enemy fire away from real vehicles.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
31 Oct. 2024
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In wartime, however, the calculus changes, because most of the costs are inoperative.—
William C. Wohlforth,
Foreign Affairs,
22 June 2021
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“Abeyant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abeyant. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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