How to Use stasis in a Sentence
stasis
noun
- The country is in economic stasis.
- His art was characterized by bursts of creativity followed by long periods of stasis.
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The start of the summer was marked by shock and stasis.
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Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2022
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This is a life shaped for the bounce and prowl of R & B, not the gnawing stasis of the blues.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
4 May 2023
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The year 2010 neared its end with the Middle East mired in stasis.
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Charles Glass,
Harper's magazine,
10 Feb. 2019
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James’s report, there were signs that the stasis might not hold.
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Eric Lach,
The New Yorker,
3 Aug. 2021
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But then, as the weeks passed, an uneasy stasis took hold.
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Eric Lach,
The New Yorker,
3 Aug. 2021
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And it was assumed that meant She-Hulk would be stuck in stasis too.
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Richard Newby,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 Aug. 2019
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Will the forces for smart change outweigh the forces of stasis or dumb, easy-answers change?
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Grant Wahl,
SI.com,
25 Oct. 2017
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In this state, even death can seem like a welcome stasis.
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Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
22 Feb. 2021
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The best hope for the Onge at Dugong Creek seems to be a handout-dependent stasis.
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Alex Perry,
Outside Online,
24 July 2019
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But what was meant to be a start, ended up being a stasis.
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Jessica Crue,
Allure,
31 Aug. 2021
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Within minutes, the force of the upwelling cleared the pool and stasis returned.
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Paul Voosen,
Science Magazine,
10 Oct. 2019
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But there is something to be said in praise of stasis in our public life, as well.
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Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2021
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To Hendry, the paradox of stasis was never a paradox at all.
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Quanta Magazine,
2 Jan. 2024
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And her pacing can be leisurely sometimes to the point of stasis.
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Leah Greenblatt,
EW.com,
10 July 2020
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Cancer This week, your goal doesn’t need to be to keep the world in a perfect winter stasis.
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Claire Comstock-Gay,
The Cut,
5 Mar. 2018
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The fossil record clearly showed stasis in traits over time.
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Quanta Magazine,
2 Jan. 2024
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The creature stirs as its cells slowly wake up from their long stasis.
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Mike Wehner,
BGR,
8 June 2021
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Perel adds that the stasis of being at home all the time can be overwhelming.
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Anne Quito,
Quartz at Work,
30 Oct. 2020
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All of the characters are in stasis, as if they were frozen in time since the Palladinos left the show at the end of season six.
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Janey Tracey,
EW.com,
29 Dec. 2022
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The three witches are the only ones able to navigate the space of the village, thrown into stasis.
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Sheena Scott,
Forbes,
21 Apr. 2021
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Nuclear power has been in an odd stasis for the past decade.
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John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
8 Nov. 2022
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But once the smoke from UKIP’s wreckage has cleared, the national picture will be one of stasis.
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The Economist,
4 May 2018
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But the long history of stasis only strengthens the case for change.
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The Economist,
24 Oct. 2019
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Will our panedemic year of stasis change what that means?
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Will Jeakle,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2021
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To have seen so early in his career the anomie at the heart of boredom, stasis, inertia—what a gift that was.
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Vivian Gornick,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2022
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Life stories pool in stasis or loop around on themselves.
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Noah Berlatsky,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2022
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In other words, species in stasis may simply have found the best possible combination of traits for lasting success in their environment.
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Donavyn Coffey,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2024
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But Drew’s photo was uniquely unsettling because of its uncomfortable elegance: a single victim, framed by both north and south towers, caught in a fragile stasis before death.
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Lucy McKeon,
New York Times,
3 June 2024
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