quiescent

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When cells shift from active to quiescent states, the presence and abundance of certain proteins important to metabolism change.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

Vesuvius’s importance, too, seems to have waned: the volcano has been quiescent since 1944.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2023

"The risk metrics that look quiescent and favoring idiosyncrasy may in fact be a chimera much more vulnerable to a macro shock than implied currently," said Arnim Holzer, global macro strategist at EAB Investment Group.

From Reuters • Jul. 5, 2023

But DSA-110 has found FRBs in quiescent galaxies whose magnetars would have long fizzled out.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 31, 2023

A heretofore quiescent problem was suddenly catapulted into the national consciousness.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt