depressant

Example Sentences

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Economists have long pointed to the country’s years-long property slump as a major depressant of consumer sentiment, as real-estate makes up a significant portion of household balance sheets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

I have some doubts about that being the primary depressant, considering that the second, third and fourth most morose metros on the list are all in the Sun Belt: Riverside-San Bernardino, Phoenix and Miami.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023

Still, while many factors encouraged merger activity, one phenomenon that once drove deals — activist investors — became something of a depressant.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2014

Dramatic reconstruction – also used in Antonia Bird's Hamburg Cell, a film about the hijackers themselves – served a purpose, but it could also be a gruelling depressant.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2010

Its effect is to counteract the depressant action of low and miasmatic atmospheres, opening the secretions which they have checked.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)