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Synonyms for stand still
stand still
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Princeton's WordNet
stand stillverb
remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile
"Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by"
Antonyms:
move
How to use stand still in a sentence?
I’ll shoot the first three jakes that stand still, and not give one damn about it, they’re delicious.
Time won’t stop and life won’t stand still. But I have a feeling that if I just look backward once in a while at Dorothy, if I am off beat in any way, I’ll get back on the soundtrack again. . . .
The divest campaign, or Keep it in the Ground or the carbon bubble, ignore reality that 80 percent of the investment in the industry has to be done just to stand still to arrest decline. It is a red herring, it is a very seductive argument and that is why it catches on, but it is a red herring.
Jim:
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
The US is kind of just playing catch-up, and I do worry sometimes the United States has forgotten that the world did not stand still for those years of the Trump administration, when it got on with things, to some extent, there's been a change in the world order, and The US can not dominate in the same way as The US did before.
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