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Then there is MP, which restarted the Mountain Pass mine in 2018 External link after it had idled in 2015.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Brokers said a loaded supertanker chartered by Shell that was supposed to cross the Strait of Hormuz had idled, while another was racing through the strait en route to South Korea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

The identification has relaunched a Madison Police Department investigation that had idled for decades.

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

GM last month said it had idled its Fairfax, Kansas, plant because of a parts shortage stemming from the strike, resulting in 2,000 indefinite layoffs.

From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2023

As a boy Roger had idled away his summers rowing lazily about in Manzanita Bay, a lovely blue cove lying in the lee of the Olympic Mountains.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown