quiescence
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Interestingly, retinoids did not operate on their own: their interplay with signaling molecules such as BMP and WNT influenced whether the stem cells should maintain quiescence or actively engage in regrowing hair.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024
Some 800 years ago, between the years 1210 and 1240, sporadic fissure eruptions took place across Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula—a period of activity that was followed by a long period of quiescence.
From National Geographic • Jan. 17, 2024
The old order has survived and the revolutionaries were either driven into exile, fell into apathy or quiescence.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2023
Most experts have converged upon an answer: We are paying back a collective “immunity debt,” one accrued from the quiescence of traditional respiratory viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Slate • Dec. 5, 2022
I answered miserably that the disease hath a period of quiescence before it blooms.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing quiescence
Power Suffix: -escence
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 10–14
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation (Volume 1)
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