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dormant

[dawr-muhnt] / ˈdɔr mənt /


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Nonetheless, the organization’s 80 acres are home to a variety of artist residencies, which use the windswept isolation of the desert to activate dormant ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Disney’s $1 billion investment in OpenAI never went through, and its relationship with the company is effectively dormant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Those same banks are teeming with relatively dormant deposits.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Since my diagnosis, I’ve undergone multiple rounds of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, going in and out of periods of remission, when my cancer was temporarily dormant, many times.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

It still stung to think about The Gold-Bug squeezed onto a shelf somewhere and Mr. Griswold’s game going dormant.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman




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