stationary
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An AFP team on site saw around 15 stationary ships near the port entrance, though it was not possible to confirm if they were being kept out by the traffic shutdown.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Liz Kimmins' proposals include making it illegal to overtake a bus when it is stationary.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Earlier studies showed that this region stayed near the equator and remained mostly stationary during the same period.
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026
The Precision Strike Missile and Atacms, both developed by Lockheed Martin, have satellite-guidance systems, making them useful for striking stationary targets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
But he went further: in place of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, he proposed his own geoheliocentric system, which was geometrically equivalent to Copernicanism but had a moving sun and a stationary Earth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing stationary
Earth and the Solar System - Middle School
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Space Science (Astronomy) - Middle School
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