stillness
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Coming after an eventful week—and a tough one for stocks, with the S&P 500 sliding 1.6%—the stillness was a welcome change of pace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
Tamma is trying to find the emotional stillness to deal with a dysfunctional family that makes plenty of demands but offers little support.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
But he was sympathetic to the crowd’s inertia: “The stillness isn’t apathy,” Skybetter added.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025
We just lay there, spooned together, holding on as if stillness could save us.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
There’s a stillness in the air—a kind of shadow swooping in on us in this little house of ours, leaking out from the walls.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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