suspended animation
Example Sentences
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Even where trees don't drop their leaves and the earth doesn't sleep under a blanket of snow, subtle changes may indicate a slowing, a retreat, a sense of suspended animation.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2025
Tardigrades' ability to survive being dried out has puzzled scientists, as the creatures do so in a manner that appears to differ from a number of other organisms with the ability to enter suspended animation.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
The startup was set up by three Weizmann Institute of Technology doctoral graduates, who developed a technology that induces neonatal larvae into suspended animation to extend shelf life for shipment purposes.
From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023
Tessier is working to keep whole animals—tiny zebrafish larvae—in suspended animation.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2023
Everything I wanted to say would have to wait, and I’d go back to the same suspended animation I’d been in before.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
