slowdown
Example Sentences
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They lack the kind of access to financing and expertise that large companies can deploy to weather challenges such as high tariffs and the sharp slowdown in the supply of immigrant labor.
The usual warning signs keep flashing, but the slowdown is nowhere in sight.
From Barron's
With a record setting number of vertical connections and a tightly woven layout that places memory and computing units close together, the design avoids slowdowns that have limited progress in flat chips.
From Science Daily
The U.S. economy continues to power through the trade and immigration shocks of 2025, defying widespread expectations of a slowdown or even a recession and blowing past other developed countries.
Chipotle in October reported a slowdown in spending among younger and less affluent customers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.