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After sitting idle for months at a maintenance facility, it relocated in early July to waters off a strip of coastline known as the Kalma Peninsula.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

It also handles FaceTime video calls, plays music and video and doubles as a digital picture frame when idle.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

As the city moves to ban wells and new state laws require buffer zones and plugging idle wells, “the relationship between residential communities and oil drilling operators has been reset,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The hulking ships are packed and rarely idle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

I’d expected a lecture, or an interrogation, not idle conversation.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

There is an almost continuous succession of scenes in which Nicholson sketches this idler, lover, jokester, manipulator, con man, gambler, loner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Oh, that would be the uncle who willed his farm and estate to Onegin, a charming idler.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2020

What’s missing is a palpable grit, particularly in Whitted’s performance, that would help us to a belief in Hal’s head-spinning pivot from idler and carouser to beloved hero of the realm.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2019

In the sweetly melancholy “Yoyo,” often considered his masterpiece, Mr. Étaix played the dual roles of a wealthy idler and his son, who grows up to become the celebrated clown Yoyo.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2016

"Rich or poor, strong or weak, the idler is a knave."

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher

Shettleston is one of Britain’s poorest, idlest and sickest places; at 64, male life expectancy is 15 years below the national average and falling.

From Economist ● Jul. 10, 2014

On the idlest previous day in the history of the bureau, Feb. 25, 1932, there had been 56 licenses issued.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The idlest whim," the prince assured her quietly.

From The Hillman by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

It is the idlest thing in the world," he says, "for a man to say, 'I wished it and yet I did not do it.'

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

You and Francie are the two idlest folk in the house just now, aren't you, Jessie? so suppose you turn errand-women?'

From Holiday Tales by Florence Wilford

Your internal machinery fires when you want to sleep and idles when you need to be sharp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

On a warm day in mid-May, Grohl appears relaxed and self-assured — but not arrogant — as she idles on a sofa in a cozy Studio City ADU owned by her publicist.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

An on-board computer steers the kite into the prevailing current, then idles it at slack tide, maintaining a constant depth in the water column.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2021

A man drives by in a beat-up blue Camry, waving a green Seahawks helmet out the window as he idles along.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2020

A line of black town cars idles at the curb while their drivers smoke and chat with each other.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

Plus, Stellantis is in talks to sell its idled Toronto-area factory, as Canada’s Prime Minister works to strengthen ties to Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

He said he wanted to restore idled mines to profitability and keep miners employed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

His girlfriend, Britany Jacobs, idled their car in a disabled parking spot, accompanied by the couple’s other child.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026

He voiced his rage over an empty reservoir, idled fire trucks and what he called dangerous brush clearance policies.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Buses idled their motors, filling the air with a stifling odor of exhaust fumes.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

He has introduced bonuses for drivers who can squeeze more mileage by reducing idling and driving more slowly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

On a recent trip, a pair of small local sampan vessels pulled up to the Parnia, an Iranian cargo ship idling off the coast of southeastern Malaysia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

His comments on the sidelines of G20 talks come as Russian and Ukrainian strikes targeting Black Sea ports have been wrecking and idling agricultural export capacity more quickly than trade flows can recover.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Llyr Gruffydd, cabinet minister for rural resilience and sustainability, said the £20 fixed fine for idling was "insufficient", and not being used "in the way everyone might envision it".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the coaching launches idling in the water behind the shells, Al Ulbrickson and Ky Ebright were decidedly nervous.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown