quiescent
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Alexis said, "It is clearly important to focus on proliferative cancer cells, but we also need to understand this population of quiescent dormant cancer cells. And that's been less studied."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Many are quiescent, meaning they are not consuming nearby material or producing detectable light.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Core inflation away from the fast-moving segments that are impacted by energy have been very quiescent, and I think we are going to continue to see that,” Bessent said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Vesuvius’s importance, too, seems to have waned: the volcano has been quiescent since 1944.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
It was the only way to keep them quiescent.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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