idle

“You are not an idle passenger of history. You get to control the impact that technology has on you and your society.”

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

The remaining 35% of idle capacity gives Meta an additional monetization lever.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

The pair are working on AI applications that could run on computing power in idle Teslas.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Globally, the auto industry is producing and selling fewer cars than it has in decades past, causing factory space to sit idle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Or they idle along 72nd Street to watch men dig holes in the ground for a new building.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

Ripley, a slacker and a con man grinding out a living in postwar New York, is sent to Italy to try to persuade a trust-funded idler to come home and take over the family business.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

There is an almost continuous succession of scenes in which Nicholson sketches this idler, lover, jokester, manipulator, con man, gambler, loner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Batman co-creator Bob Kane wrote in his 1998 autobiography “Batman and Me”: “The rich foppish Don Diego, Zorro’s alter ego, inspired Bruce Wayne’s facade of being a bored, wealthy idler and playboy.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020

Oh, that would be the uncle who willed his farm and estate to Onegin, a charming idler.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2020

Johnston, whom I knew, was exactly what his distinguished step-brother charged—an idler.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.

Shettleston is one of Britain’s poorest, idlest and sickest places; at 64, male life expectancy is 15 years below the national average and falling.

From Economist ● Jul. 10, 2014

On the idlest previous day in the history of the bureau, Feb. 25, 1932, there had been 56 licenses issued.

From Time Magazine Archive

The subject was idlest village gossip, but it served to divert Hallam's thoughts from his impending errand, and he arrived at the office of the mill in good spirits.

From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

The money which it will cost me is no more than I have thrown away many times on the idlest passing pleasure.

From Mr. Marx's Secret by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

As a matter of fact, the active campaign never came, and for many moons we led the very idlest life down there that soldiers in time of war ever led anywhere.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

“We live right here on the water, sure, we are lucky. But it’s like someone leaves a big truck, just parks it and idles it in front of your house.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2021

Back at the cemetery on Boston's North Shore in Lynn, Dave's youngest son, Cameron, idles near David's grave, his voice cracking as he struggles to talk about his brother, his hero.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2019

The burbling idles of the Chevy and the Buick reverberating in our chests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2019

She then idles outside the closed local library, so her child in middle school can pick up the Wi-Fi signal and do his homework.

From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2018

A line of black town cars idles at the curb while their drivers smoke and chat with each other.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

“Hurdles include mine clearance, insurance reinstatement, emptying excess Gulf oil storage, repositioning ships, and restarting idled production fields and downstream infrastructure across several Gulf producers,” they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

His girlfriend, Britany Jacobs, idled their car in a disabled parking spot, accompanied by the couple’s other child.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026

He voiced his rage over an empty reservoir, idled fire trucks and what he called dangerous brush clearance policies.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Then there is MP, which restarted the Mountain Pass mine in 2018 External link after it had idled in 2015.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

During these moments as the bus idled, several passengers boarded through the rear door.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

The officer walked up to my idling Impala and informed me that my left taillight was out.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

But the sounds of idling diesel work truck engines had replaced the dozens of fire trucks that had been stationed there for days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Missing from the gathering: attendees in flamboyant orange bitcoin suits roaming the halls and Lamborghinis idling out front—the flashy hallmarks of crypto’s boom years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

"I don't think anyone who is struggling with fuel costs would benefit from sitting in an idling queue with their engines turning over and their fuel being wasted."

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

At eighty miles per hour, the engine was only idling.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz