immobility
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When turned upside down, a shark enters a temporary paralysis known as tonic immobility, which occurs when its awareness of its environment is disrupted.
From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025
Lowry’s rectilinear buildings suggest immobility beyond time, and urban orderliness without elegance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
"If I’m being honest, I also didn’t want to admit to the depth of my disability. I had muscle spasms and immobility on my left side, and I tried to hide it," she said.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024
That matters, Wooldridge continues, because “The rate of single parenting is the most significant predictor of social immobility in the country.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023
This whole time I’d been rooted in place, terrified into absolute immobility.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
Vocabulary lists containing immobility
And Then There Were None
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