stasis

Example Sentences

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But stasis doesn’t make for much of a climax, and as the couple wait in the snowbound airport, the setting also functions as a metaphor for the film as a whole.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Facts are hardly the cure for dramatic stasis, or Ken Burns would be Quentin Tarantino.

From The Wall Street Journal

So the stasis, i.e., inactive equilibrium, will remain.

From Barron's