supine

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The Tesla board, which had changed somewhat since 2018 but was still supine toward Musk, also asked shareholders in effect to overturn McCormick’s ruling by voting on the pay package again.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2024

John Ryley said broadcasters had become "supine", "incurious" and "compliant" when it comes to the Royal Family.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023

Yet Europe has left unaddressed the corrosive, longer-term problem of defense industries in most E.U. countries that were left to atrophy after the Soviet Union’s collapse more than three decades ago, and today remain supine.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2023

Once supine, I experienced the unique and briefly frightening sensation that my ears were traveling up very fast in an elevator while the rest of my body fell gently toward Earth.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

The thud of Ignatius’ fall had attracted Miss Trixie from the ladies’ room; she came around the files and tripped on the mountain of supine flesh.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole