stasis

Example Sentences

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Employers hired at a middling pace in December, closing out a year that saw the U.S. labor market cool into a “low hire, low fire” stasis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

So the stasis, i.e., inactive equilibrium, will remain.

From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026

In the interim, it lurks underground in stasis, almost like a fetus in the womb.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2025

The governor’s race was frozen in stasis for most of the year, first as Californians waited for former Vice President Kamala Harris to decide whether she was going to jump into the race.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

Scuffles echo from behind me like an animal scurrying between the pods and stasis barrels.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera