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hi·ber·na·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hibernationnoun

    the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter

  2. hibernationnoun

    cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals

  3. hibernationnoun

    the act of retiring into inactivity

    "he emerged from his hibernation to make his first appearance in several years"

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  1. List of paraphrases for "hibernation":

    hibernate, hibernating, hibernacula, overwintering

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How to use hibernation in a sentence?

  1. John Paulson:

    The gold fund is in hibernation, it makes up a little over 1 percent of our assets and we don't market it, but we keep it alive.

  2. Prime Minister Scott Morrison:

    This is part of the hibernation strategy of ensuring we keep people connected with their businesses and with their jobs, so on the other side of this, Australia can bounce back stronger.

  3. Sage Chief Executive Jeff Jonas:

    It's almost like an artificial hibernation to keep the brain and the body at rest in the hopes that something can be done for the patient.

  4. Jon Costanzo:

    Frogs and turtles that live in seasonally cold places are very well-adapted to survive the winter, even a particularly long one, however, it is doubtful that they could survive a hibernation that lasts multiple years.

  5. Kit Juckes:

    Risk bears are being sent into hibernation, markets focus on re-opening economies and policy activism, bears struggle to understand how they can ignore reinfection and economic destruction.


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