listless
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Low trading volume has likely contributed to the listless price action, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Dodgers look completely listless, and waiting for slumping veterans like Teoscar Hernández and Kyle Tucker to snap out of it is a losing strategy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
In Georgia Bernstein’s alluringly listless “Night Nurse,” something is afoot at a luxury retirement community.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
The relative predictability of baking, putting together ingredients with a tasty outcome, anchors listless days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
But the last couple of shifts he’s been listless and unshaven, and tonight he looks like the ghost we all know him to be, with dark halfmoons hanging from his eyes.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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