stationary
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When you’re putting together these projects, I feel like you have to literally be stationary for weeks at a time when you wake up and that’s all you think about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Long lines of stationary cars and buses were gridlocked on main roads as commuters sought alternative routes -- or even made their way on foot.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
As a result, that portion of the wave remained stationary relative to the laboratory and the Earth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
A second defendant Abubakar Adamu, 35, the driver of the stationary lorry the car collided with, denies a charge against him of obstructing the free flow of traffic.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
From the moon, he argued, one would have the illusion that the moon was stationary and that the Earth floated through the sky.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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When a man calls all he sees STRANgers, it's a sign he don't let the grass grow in the road for want of movin'; and a movin' man for me, any day, before your stationaries.
From Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper
Burn it in grates—cook with it—smelt metals with it—burn lime with it—drive engines, not locomotives, but stationaries, with it.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
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