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The phrase 'laying dormant' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which something is inactive or inactive. For example: "The volcano had been laying dormant for centuries until it suddenly erupted."
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After laying dormant for over eight years, we feel it's time to bring back the Cycle with new vigour.
Sometimes, a note, a sketch, cross fertilises from one sketchbook to another, to connect across time and space to give birth to a new idea … The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience.
Almost all cases of cervical cancer are caused by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), but three in five women in this age group did not know this and many failed to see historic sexual activity as a threat with the virus laying dormant and developing into cervical cancer later in life.
Was this demand laying dormant for decades or is something else driving this unabated growth?
It's strangers coming together, it's new opportunities for work, it's helping other people out, and it's extracting rents from assets that would otherwise be laying dormant.
This advanced malware can be polymorphic and environmentally-aware, laying dormant or changing to adapt if it senses that it is "being watched" or quarantined.
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Still, while the titular Gothamist site started publishing again in April, followed by DCist and LAist in mid-June, Chicagoist has laid dormant.
More alarmingly, the prosecution of Georgiou, which had laid dormant for over a year, was reactivated in March and appears to be headed for trial.
Yet, for an industry with such well-documented risks – albeit risks that have laid dormant for more than a decade – nuclear energy has enjoyed a great deal of support from the Obama administration.
Kindle things and thoughts laid dormant.
So what happens when a user downloads an arbitrary executable off the internet, executes it, it lays dormant for 30 days, then phones home?
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