stillness
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The COVID-19 pandemic gave Korkejian the stillness to undertake it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The investor team found the stubbornly analog machines appealing: At a time when people mediate so many experiences through glowing screens, Tower Optical’s viewers offered something increasingly rare: stillness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Brands never lets his subject tarry long enough to freeze into marmoreal stillness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
And on Tuesdays, when Apam observes a long-standing spiritual tradition and no-one goes out to fish, the town falls into an unusual stillness, the Atlantic rolling quietly in the background.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
She sighed, and they fell back into a stillness.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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