quiescent

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"We found that TILs from metastatic uveal melanoma have the potential to attack the tumor, but something in the tumor microenvironment is shutting them down, so they're in a dormant, or quiescent, state," explained Kammula.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 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

A heretofore quiescent problem was suddenly catapulted into the national consciousness.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt