falter

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SNPs are driving growth in Medicare Advantage at a time when the private-insurance alternative to Medicare is seeing its once-robust enrollment increases falter.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026

If breadth begins to falter here, the broader market may not be far behind.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Prices for silver, platinum and palladium, meanwhile, could falter if global growth slows or there is a recession in a major economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Mouat and Dodds did not falter, though, blanking that final end to all but seal a semi-final spot.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

Without equality, eugenics would inevitably falter on the false premise that social ills, such as vagrancy, pauperism, deviance, alcoholism, and feeblemindedness were genetic ills—while, in fact, they merely reflected inequality.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee