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Algae lying dormant on the ice starts blooming in spring blackening large areas of the ice.

A rivalry that had lain dormant during City's drop down the divisions was bubbling once more.

Across California and Arizona, there are stretches of desert that can quickly transform into dense fields of wildflowers, since seeds lie dormant in the soil and then germinate and blossom at around the same time.

Many people believe that reducing B cells reduces EBV levels, as EBV can lie dormant within B cells.

But after lying dormant for 40 years of dormancy, the law was deployed with renewed vigor: Barack Obama's administration prosecuted twice as many Espionage Act cases as all previous administrations combined.