durables
Example Sentences
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Trends in durables orders are often driven by big swings in categories like airplane orders, because small volumes can come with big dollar figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Consumer durables growth has collapsed from 11% to 1-2%.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
More likely are gradual and targeted policies, such as raising incomes for low-income households or shifting the recent trade-in and subsidy programs for durables like household appliances and cars into services.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
The behavior is that middle-income households have spent refund checks on deferred durables for decades.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
We've begun ag'in' the Rensselaers, and the durables, and the quarter-sales, and the chickens; but we don't, by no manner of means, think of eending there.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
