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Quibbling over such syntax may seem trivial, but language is so often a dormant phenomenon that it is worth tweaking its tail on occasion.
Parker's ideas might reactivate evolutionary biologists' interest in sexes, which has lain somewhat dormant since the 1990s.
The direct road from Denpasar to Singaraja traverses some of Bali’s prettiest hill country, with views of dormant volcanoes and three crater lakes.
An alternative hypothesis is that given the possible presence of ferrate in the soil, the present environmental conditions on Mars are not highly conducive to ferrate-based oxidation reactions, including those potentially affecting dormant and hostile-environment-resistant life forms.
After the 1940s, groovy went dormant for a time; reference books begin to refer to it as "archaic" or "obsolete."