corrective
Example Sentences
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With nearly 70% of Chinese household wealth tied to a property market that remains in a multiyear corrective phase, the appetite for $3,000 handbags has vanished along with home equity.
From MarketWatch
Also worth noting are the two weekly doji candles in December, which helped signal the onset of the latest corrective phase.
From Barron's
Bogota retorted Thursday with a matching 30-percent "corrective action" on about 20 unspecified products, for now.
From Barron's
Almost nothing in the corrective filing could come as a surprise to the Social Security Administration or the Department of Justice, which filed the document on Social Security’s behalf.
From Los Angeles Times
“They aim to correct where we could have been better. And it identifies ... the steps that are going to be necessary to make those corrective actions.”
From Los Angeles Times
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