stasis
Example Sentences
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That means Americans without stable, full-time work are locked out of a job market that has settled into a low-hire, low-fire stasis.
Employers hired at a middling pace in December, closing out a year that saw the U.S. labor market cool into a “low hire, low fire” stasis.
Facts are hardly the cure for dramatic stasis, or Ken Burns would be Quentin Tarantino.
So the stasis, i.e., inactive equilibrium, will remain.
From Barron's
The world ends in the stasis of the seventh section, “soft rains.”
From Los Angeles Times
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