motionless
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The striker lay motionless on the pitch as medical staff treated him before he was taken by ambulance from Tenerife's ground to hospital.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The Griffith Park merry-go-round, which turned 100 this year, stands motionless, many of its 66 wooden horses weathered and caught mid-ascent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The electrically charged atom was held nearly motionless in an ion trap, which uses electromagnetic fields to keep the ion fixed in place.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
"Fuel is unavailable, there are huge queues everywhere," he told AFP from his motionless Toyota sedan after a one-and-a-half hour drive from the capital Ulaanbaatar.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
It must be said in explanation that the statue did not look like a statue; no one would have thought it was ivory or stone, but warm human flesh, motionless for a moment only.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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