sputter
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Derek Scissors, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said the move could also be Beijing issuing a warning to investors looking to put their capital elsewhere as the country’s economy continues to sputter.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Hopes had been high that the eurozone's traditional growth engine would sputter back to life in 2026 after years of stagnation, driven by Chancellor Friedrich Merz's public spending blitz.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
And when they do, the room will sputter, “Wait, how did this not get a single Oscar nomination?”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
Instead, productivity growth has all but collapsed since the pandemic, and even before then was starting to sputter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Mr. Stonecrop held the paper out with both hands, mumbled a moment until he found the right place, and then began to sputter as though great Lucifer himself had provoked him.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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