suspended animation
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The Matrix films were based on the idea that machine-addicted humans would put their bodies in suspended animation while computers provided a virtual reality that replaced real life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
The crew, who are near the end of a 65-year mission — suspended animation keeps them young and pretty — are transporting an extraterrestrial bestiary back to Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
This time of year invites us all, believers and atheists alike, to emerge from our own suspended animation or curled-up little balls, like cummings writes at the end of that poem:
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025
The researchers plan to continue investigating how different species regulate diapause and to dig deeper into the role of lipid metabolism during diapause and other types of suspended animation.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
In the months to come, because one did have to keep on walking, one desperately wanted to believe nothing had changed during those years of suspended animation.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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