suspended animation
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‘The Matrix films were based on the idea that machine-addicted humans would put their bodies in suspended animation.’
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
This time of year invites us all, believers and atheists alike, to emerge from our own suspended animation or curled-up little balls, like cummings writes at the end of that poem:
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2025
The Thracian show floats in a state of suspended animation.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025
The new study, published in the journal Protein Science, examines the mechanisms used by tardigrades to enter and exit from suspended animation when faced by environmental stress.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
