stationary
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When you’re putting together these projects, I feel like you have to literally be stationary for weeks at a time when you wake up and that’s all you think about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Long lines of stationary cars and buses clogged major roads on Friday as commuters sought alternate routes, with some forced to continue their journeys on foot.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Gardening, riding a stationary bicycle, and enjoying other favorite activities all involve far less pain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
A second defendant Abubakar Adamu, 35, the driver of the stationary lorry the car collided with, denies a charge against him of obstructing the free flow of traffic.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Clockwise or anti-clockwise, male or female, half empty or half full, stationary or moving, depending on how you look at it.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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Burn it in grates—cook with it—smelt metals with it—burn lime with it—drive engines, not locomotives, but stationaries, with it.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
When a man calls all he sees STRANgers, it's a sign he don't let the grass grow in the road for want of movin'; and a movin' man for me, any day, before your stationaries.
From Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper
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