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Recent Examples of movelessThis made us—with all our human, mortal limitations—rather like the God of all those past centuries of belief, or should that be credulity: the God who retained and stored away everything in his motley, moveless time, in which nothing was new or old, remote or recent.—Margaret Jull Costa, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
At the sweet sound of the final whistle, Martin Odegaard rolled onto the turf and lay there motionless.
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Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
Video from the scene showed Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters using a jack to raise the wreckage of a car off a motionless person and check for vital signs.
Potential future applications for the technology include electric vehicles, humanoid robotics, and stationary energy storage systems.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Apr. 2026
Ground Covers * Use in-ground sprinklers; select stationary heads for plantings more than a foot tall and low-precipitation-rate heads for ground covers (including lawns) on a slope.