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at rest

adjective as in quiescent

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“I don’t know if you can go to heaven if you killed yourself, but I pray that he made it and that his family is at rest. God bless.”

"Reacher" can be interpreted as a far-right fever dream of America—a land of gorgeous vistas and open roads, with a heartless criminal lurking at rest stops—or as a product of the same.

From Salon

That intensity of shaking is felt by only a few people at rest, especially on an upper floor of a building.

"We can keep on top of it and if anything changes we know straight away. It puts my mind at rest a bit," Lily said.

From BBC

“Weak” shaking is generally defined as either being felt only by a few people at rest, or felt quite noticeably by people indoors.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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