stasis
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
So the stasis, i.e., inactive equilibrium, will remain.
From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026
“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.”
From MarketWatch • Oct. 28, 2025
In the 1980s, Nicholas led the city out of a cultural stasis and turned it into a global cultural and architectural powerhouse.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025
But this has left the center of the cavernous hold dark, except for the faint glow of stasis gel barrels between empty pods around the perimeter.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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