be quiescent

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The security threat from the Islamic State may be quiescent now, but is hardly gone, according to senior Iraqi security officials.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023

The third, around Leningrad, seemed now to be quiescent; it had changed from a sector to an episode.

From Time Magazine Archive

For almost twenty-four hours that dreadful, unbeaten hopefulness would be quiescent.

From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Smith, Harriet L.

A man in a ship may be said to be quiescent with relation to the sides of the vessel, and yet move with relation to the land.

From A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley, George

Christian philosophy had seemed to be quiescent, but there were questions which thoughtful men must have seen would soon come up for solution as the inevitable result of the Monophysite controversy.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden