quiescence

Example Sentences

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Second, and crucially, it intimidates opponents into silence and quiescence.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2024

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

The old order has survived and the revolutionaries were either driven into exile, fell into apathy or quiescence.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2023

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