quiescent
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“Core inflation away from the fast-moving segments that are impacted by energy have been very quiescent, and I think we are going to continue to see that,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Grossniklaus' team has now shown that the quiescent egg cell is also in this phase.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
"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
Similarly, Itoh and his team reported in Science Advances in 2020 that tiny hydras of the species Hydra vulgaris also have a quiescent period that acts a lot like sleep.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2023
And up from the quiescent, waiting land a faint mist rose, silver as moonlight, and clung about the tree trunks.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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