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motionless

[moh-shuhn-lis] / ˈmoʊ ʃən lɪs /


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But the animals remained tightly packed around one of the largest, which was lying motionless on its side.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“Across the bay the yachts of the city’s rich lingered motionless all summer, never seeming to arrive or depart.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Fuel is unavailable, there are huge queues everywhere," he told AFP from his motionless Toyota sedan after a one-and-a-half hour drive from the capital Ulaanbaatar.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The work connects two seemingly opposite descriptions of a single impurity moving through or remaining nearly motionless within a large collection of fermions, a system known as a Fermi sea.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

He lay motionless with his eyes open and his hands turned palm upward.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers




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