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How to pronounce stasis in English?

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Type Words
Type of pathology
Type Words
Type of inaction, inactiveness, inactivity

Examples of stasis

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As such, much debate persist over the prominence of stasis in the fossil record.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In particular, stasis, to them, is just an extreme case of ultra-slow evolution.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Wright's explanation for stasis was that organisms come to occupy adaptive peaks.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I do think that executive incentives are an important part of the current stasis.
From the forbes.com
No one will ever accuse him of falling prey to claustrophobia or stasis on screen.
From the post-gazette.com
Watching genuine stasis freeze an organisation led me to take personal action.
From the economist.com
This research supports the overall pattern of stasis and punctuational change.
From the sciencedaily.com
In 2011, rock music is clotted by nostalgia, cowed into stasis by its own history.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yes, a prison in space, where the captives serve their various sentences in stasis.
From the charlotteobserver.com
More examples
  • An abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
  • Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
  • (static) inactive: not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest"
  • (static) a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference
  • (static) electrostatic: concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity; "an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static electricity"
  • (static) angry criticism; "they will probably give you a lot of static about your editorial"
  • Inventio is the system or method used for the discovery of arguments in Western rhetoric and comes from the Latin word, meaning "invention" or "discovery". Inventio is the central, indispensable canon of rhetoric, and traditionally means a systematic search for arguments (Glenn and Goldthwaite 151).
  • Punctuated equilibrium is a theory in evolutionary biology which proposes that most sexually reproducing species will experience little evolutionary change for most of their geological history, remaining in an extended state called stasis. ...
  • STASIS (Software for Ambient Semantic Interoperable Services) is a research and development project funded under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. The project began in 2006 and was completed in November 2009. ...