supine
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The Tesla board, which had changed somewhat since 2018 but was still supine toward Musk, also asked shareholders in effect to overturn McCormick’s ruling by voting on the pay package again.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2024
"They do not at the moment. They are too supine, too incurious, too compliant," he said.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023
In this test, the patient’s heart rate and blood pressure are monitored when they are supine and then as they stand in place for 10 minutes.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023
Yet Europe has left unaddressed the corrosive, longer-term problem of defense industries in most E.U. countries that were left to atrophy after the Soviet Union’s collapse more than three decades ago, and today remain supine.
From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2023
They dashed over to the figure lying supine near an overturned birdbath.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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