spillover
Example Sentences
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The surge in energy prices, spillover to other commodities and the hit to consumer and business confidence will take time to normalize.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Following the spillover of smog, the region’s pollution control domain necessarily grew bigger.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Just as damaging are what they call “knock-on” or spillover effects.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026
“Bank stocks do not currently signal any truly damaging spillover from the problems in private credit or higher oil prices into the U.S. economy,” he wrote.
From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026
I thought I had truly suffered from the spillover of Stargirl’s shunning, but that was nothing now that the full torrent was turned on me.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
Vocabulary lists containing spillover
Economics
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