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Six example sentences with moribund, each labelled with its topic.
The app was moribund by spring, with no new users, no releases, and a founder already interviewing elsewhere.
Startups
The moribund file format survives only in archives, since no browser has shipped a decoder for it in years.
Technology
The moribund studio released one picture in four years and rented its empty stages to television crews to survive.
Movies
The town's economy was moribund, its mill closed and its main street half shuttered, until the rail line reopened.
Economics
The moribund franchise had not won a playoff game in twelve seasons, and the arena was rarely half full.
Basketball
Critics called the genre moribund, yet a teenager's bedroom recording revived it and topped the charts within a year.
Music
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