moribund
adjective
Norman CameronD. S. Janal
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Moribund Gets Less Literal
Moribund is still sometimes used in its original literal sense of "approaching death", but it's much more often used to describe things. When the economy goes bad, we hear about moribund mills and factories and towns; the economy itself may even be called moribund. Critics may speak of the moribund state of poetry, or lament the moribund record or newspaper industry.
Examples of moribund in a Sentence
Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
Hong Kong’s struggling stock market will get support from mainland Chinese regulators, as the international financial hub tries to snap a four-year losing streak and reinvigorate a moribund IPO market.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 22 Apr. 2024
The Russians said the call centered on the moribund 2022 Istanbul Talks and implicitly, on the possibility of a negotiated end to the Ukraine conflict.
—Ania Nussbaum, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
Battling for the future The strategy is designed to fend off activist investors and boost the company’s moribund stock price and sales.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
What to know about American Dream Miami Almost as ambitious: The moribund Southland Mall in Cutler Bay stands poised to evolve into the 98-acre, $1 billion Southplace City Center over a seven-year period.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
And the moribund Red Sox will continue their slow descent into irrelevance.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
Russia would surely conclude that Atlanticism is a moribund viewpoint.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
The communist government is also trying to attract Russian investments and credits to try to salvage the island’s moribund socialist economy.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
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“Moribund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moribund. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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