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Stagnation Dictionary Thesaurus Wikipedia

Agent gets stuck

Agent avoids risk

Agent fears change

Agent procrastinates

Agent refuses to adapt

Agent lives vicariously

Agent wanders aimlessly

Agent fixates on the past

Agent forgoes opportunity

Agent waits for the future

Agent goes against the flow

Agent forgets to take action

Agent falls into an old habit

Agent becomes lost in a dream

Agent abandons an opportunity

Agent plays the role of victim

Agent takes a circuitous route

Agent avoids high expectations

Agent fails to overcome inertia

Agent misses a rare opportunity

Agent complicates a simple task

Agent enjoys telling a sob story

Agent laments the passage of time

Agent pursues an impossible dream

Agent refuses to admit the obvious

Agent creates artificial boundaries

Agent fails to perceive opportunity

Agent sees two sides to everything

Agent blames others for a bad habit

Agent clings to a comforting delusion

Agent proceeds with excessive caution

Agent struggles to fix a trivial defect

Agent fantasizes about a former lover

Agent struggles to preserve a tradition

Agent romanticizes a time from the past

Experiencing failure, Agent feels jinxed

Agent is obsessed with getting revenge

Agent tries to understand the unknowable

Agent experiences a period of debauchery

Agent indulges an overactive imagination

Agent refuses to shed an obsolete persona

Agent falls in love with a self-conception

Agent tries to prove something to others

Agent is troubled by debilitating thoughts

Agent can't stop thinking about object (X)

Achieving success, Agent becomes complacent

Agent wastes energy compensating for a phobia

Agent is unable to make an important decision

Agent squanders the opportunity of a lifetime

Agent finds reasons to put off the inevitable

Agent struggles to correct an imaginary defect

Agent is content with the way things are going

Agent spends a lot of time thinking about life

Lacking privacy, Agent is unable to concentrate

Agent suffers the symptoms of a serious illness

Afraid of change, Agent continues a boring routine

Agent gets involved in a task that seems endless

Agent struggles to return to a former way of life

Agent longs to be somewhere entirely different

Agent continues a routine but has forgotten its purpose

Agent focuses on a small detail concerning object (X)

Agent seeks more information before making a commitment

Agent feels guilt for something that happened a long time ago

Agent struggles with the final detail of a complicated project

Agent makes excuses for having a particular personal trait

Agent refuses to settle for anything less than perfection

Imagining how others will react, Agent decides not to change

Just as things take a turn for the better, Agent has a setback

Agent takes a difficult path even though there’s an easier route

Agent decides certain objectives must be put off until later

Agent falls asleep hoping things will be different in the morning

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