stationary
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Unlike the auto business and its lower margins, high capital costs and “significant” labor-related risks, the stationary energy business has “much greater growth prospects,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
For the third act, which opens with the famous “Ride of the Valkyries,” Gehry designed paper sculpture horses in different poses of motion that, though stationary, activated the stage.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
For instance, a clock traveling at 10 m/s for 57 million years would fall behind a stationary clock by about one second.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
He settled in a spacious room with a stationary bike, TV and a window that had double panes and couldn’t be opened.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The stationary earth cannot be the source of that motive power, so the innermost sphere must be moved by the next sphere out.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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