quiescence
Example Sentences
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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
In their new technique, however, the researchers found the signatures of autofluorescence can be used to study stem cells' dormant state, known as quiescence.
From Science Daily
Watching these videos is my surest path to calm and quiescence.
From New York Times
A light pulse could rouse them, but after about 20 minutes of quiescence, the animals responded slowly to such pulses, much like a groggy napper.
From Scientific American
The old order has survived and the revolutionaries were either driven into exile, fell into apathy or quiescence.
From BBC
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