stationary
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Today, she says everyday activities such as gardening and riding a stationary bicycle are far more enjoyable because of the reduction in pain.
From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026
This was mid-set and I mentioned it to the crowd because I had to be stationary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
The crash happened on the Strathspey Railway, a heritage railway run separately from mass-transit public services, and involved a stationary carriage and another train in the station.
From Barron's • Jun. 20, 2026
When Jessie climbs onto a roof to survey the cause of her owner’s maladjustment, she sees a neighborhood of silent, stationary children sucked into their online devices.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
If one argued that earth, water and air all rotated together, so that they were all stationary with regard to each other, then why are there always violent winds blowing at the tops of mountains?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing stationary
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