not busy

Example Sentences

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“When you’re Nolan Ryan, and you’re not busy pitching yourself into dramatic ninth innings, across game-changing divides, past generational records, sometimes a moment arrives just because you’re scheduled to play that day,” Mr. Brown writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Kelly: How do you stay in the moment when you are not busy?

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

Now, he said "it's not busy at all, no one is buying."

From Reuters • Aug. 25, 2023

When you’re not busy, how do you nurture your own creativity?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

The centrioles, which hoist the microtubules on which chromosomes are strung for mitosis, are similar separate creatures; when not busy with mitosis, they become the basal bodies to which cilia are attached.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas