stagnation
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But following a long period of stagnation stretching back to the 2008 financial crisis, the economy looks set for a fresh setback as the latest energy shock takes its toll.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Russian economists speak of "stagnation" and, in some areas, "decline".
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
Where the article stresses a sense of stagnation and managed decline, several campaigns cast the moment as an opening for large-scale structural change.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
As in Zimbabwe's lucrative mining sector, Chinese companies dominate tobacco production, drawing criticism of a near-monopoly that contributes to price stagnation.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing stagnation
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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