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
Moldova has no major mineral resources and has depended on the former Soviet republics for coal, oil, gas, steel, most electronic equipment, machine tools, and major consumer durables such as automobiles.
From The 1992 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
