be quiescent
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The security threat from the Islamic State may be quiescent now, but is hardly gone, according to senior Iraqi security officials.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
The third, around Leningrad, seemed now to be quiescent; it had changed from a sector to an episode.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is hard to be quiescent when one is so hedged in on all sides by falsehood and deceit and the very air breathes conspiracy and intrigue.
From The Crevice by Will Grefé
Christian philosophy had seemed to be quiescent, but there were questions which thoughtful men must have seen would soon come up for solution as the inevitable result of the Monophysite controversy.
From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton
His vigorous muscles were made to be quiescent as well as to act.
From Catherine De Medici by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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