stasis
/ˈsteɪsɪs/
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American sound/ˈsteɪsɪs/
stasis
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sta - sis -> stasis
Myanmar meaning
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stasis /'steÇsÇs / n [U, C] (pl stases /-si:z /) (fml )
ပြောင်းလဲ တိုးတက်မှု မရှိခြင်း။ ရိုးအီလေးတွဲ့၍ ငြီးငွေ့ဖွယ်အခြေအနေ (သို့) ဌီ။
the dull stasis of provincial life.
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- ‘I started the year in stasis and now things are moving.’
- ‘The tension induced by this self-revulsion, at odds with his need for creative stasis, is born out of guilt.’
- ‘It also reveals Yo La Tengo's understanding of stasis without stagnation.’
- ‘During such periods of stasis, most species exhibit no directional change.’
- ‘Schools were adjuncts of pupils' social backgrounds and teachers were tasked to implement a curriculum which maintained both social hierarchy and stasis.’
- ‘This also explains why evolution often appears to go in spurts after periods of apparent stasis.’
- ‘Blair has, it appears, accepted the reality that he can only expect limited successes in return for reverses - or at least stasis - in other areas.’
- ‘With nothing going on but election manoeuvres, the end result is stasis, which is perhaps, as the young woman's placard suggests, what everyone wants.’
- ‘From the late sixteenth century, stasis replaced the earlier dynamism of ideas and applications.’
- ‘During this period of time, an almost complete stasis was observed.’
- ‘Despite the stasis of the couples' narratives, however, a kind of catharsis seems finally to take place.’
- ‘Most populations of organisms at any given time are in stasis or genetic equilibrium, as the fossil record indicates.’
- ‘Above all, she has the confidence to slow the narrative tempo down almost to zero: a condition of stasis in which the moment is held, like a musical note, for as long as she wishes it.’
- ‘The illness gets worse and worse as time passes, and the periods of stasis last increasingly longer.’
- ‘The limitations of heterodoxy such as those I have described above go some way towards accounting for inertia and stasis.’
- ‘The disembodied faces which we see through the darkness are recognisably human, but also immobile, as if physically caught in a state of Beckettian stasis.’
- ‘Or to put it the other way, stasis and stagnation are signposts along the path towards cessation and death.’
- ‘But despite the drama, there remains a strange political stasis here.’
- ‘If they come back to us and say there is hardly any money, we would be in stasis (a state of stagnation).’
- ‘The major feature of the fossil record is stasis, long periods in which new species do not appear.’
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