stasis

The world ends in the stasis of the seventh section, “soft rains.”

In the interim, it lurks underground in stasis, almost like a fetus in the womb.

The governor’s race was frozen in stasis for most of the year, first as Californians waited for former Vice President Kamala Harris to decide whether she was going to jump into the race.

“But this would seem to suggest that kind of stasis is now changing to more direct action on the part of companies, and that’s going to make jobs more precarious.”

In the 1980s, Nicholas led the city out of a cultural stasis and turned it into a global cultural and architectural powerhouse.