becalmed
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She recounts being jerked from sleep by the screams of alarms when First Light is becalmed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In contrast to Stoinis’ powerful striking, Warner was relatively becalmed.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
But it’s Mollie’s visage, radiant and eerily becalmed even when she’s bedridden, that keeps drawing your gaze; she’s the faint-flickering beam of light in a story of near-impenetrable darkness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
To watch him perform even as purely lyrical a song as Schubert’s “Meeresstille,” a setting of Goethe’s poem about a ship becalmed at sea, was to see a master actor at work.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
The nursery is becalmed, and Penelope reconsiders her position.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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