slowdown
Example Sentences
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The goal isn’t to juice short-term growth, but to stabilize a heavily indebted economy without reigniting the excesses that led to the slowdown.
From Barron's
The slowdown foreseen by many on Wall Street never materialized in full.
A subsequent cooling in the labor market prompted three straight quarter-point rate cuts between September and December, moves aimed at averting a deeper slowdown.
Meanwhile, investors have grown used to outsize growth in revenues from quarter to quarter and are easily spooked by any sign of a slowdown.
That slowdown can leave older adults more vulnerable to many kinds of infections.
From Science Daily
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