dormant
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They found the tool could locate dormant bugs lurking in decades-old code and easily exploit them.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Those same banks are teeming with relatively dormant deposits.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Since my diagnosis, I’ve undergone multiple rounds of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, going in and out of periods of remission, when my cancer was temporarily dormant, many times.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
Boeing plans to reactivate a dormant production line at its Everett, Wash., factory to push 737 output higher in the coming months.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
It still stung to think about The Gold-Bug squeezed onto a shelf somewhere and Mr. Griswold’s game going dormant.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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