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
First seen cycling his city’s streets day and night with a becalmed sense of ownership, Holland’s Roger is a die-hard Brooklynite none too happy with the smoothing over of his cherished neighborhoods by “obscene” money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
In contrast to Stoinis’ powerful striking, Warner was relatively becalmed.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
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
He knew the answer, though- For twelve days now the ship had floated becalmed in the Gulf of Grief.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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