quiescent
Example Sentences
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Through most of their lives, these black holes are quiescent, sitting quietly while matter orbits around them, and having little impact on the galaxy as a whole.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024
But not by much: The cluster’s gas was surprisingly quiescent, not the maelstrom theorists had predicted.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 15, 2023
"The risk metrics that look quiescent and favoring idiosyncrasy may in fact be a chimera much more vulnerable to a macro shock than implied currently," said Arnim Holzer, global macro strategist at EAB Investment Group.
From Reuters • Jul. 5, 2023
The mechanism is just one way that scientists are realizing that asteroids can be active, dynamic places rather than quiescent lumps of rock.
From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2023
And up from the quiescent, waiting land a faint mist rose, silver as moonlight, and clung about the tree trunks.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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