quiescence

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"One fact is conclusive proof of the quiescence of the middle class - that hardly any officials resigned in protest against the Emergency," writes historian Ramachandra Guha in his book India After Gandhi.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025

By focusing on light emitted by parts of the cell that change in key ways with quiescence, the researchers identified the light "signature" that matches a target cell state.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

Some 800 years ago, between the years 1210 and 1240, sporadic fissure eruptions took place across Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula—a period of activity that was followed by a long period of quiescence.

From National Geographic • Jan. 17, 2024

Most experts have converged upon an answer: We are paying back a collective “immunity debt,” one accrued from the quiescence of traditional respiratory viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2022

I answered miserably that the disease hath a period of quiescence before it blooms.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson