dead storage
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“So there’s a commercial sitting offline in dead storage somewhere, probably in a mountain cave in Georgia, of John Elway’s Disney Super Bowl commercial from that game,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022
The metal it buys will be simply put in dead storage, with no certificates outstanding against it.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the Akron gone, the Los Angeles in dead storage, the Macon already assigned to Sunnyvale, the Navy could not afford to maintain the eastern base.
From Time Magazine Archive
In dead storage are some 19,000,000 bags of Brazilian coffee for which no market exists.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when the wish enters upon the scene, it is as if a dead storage battery has been refreshed with new current.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
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