sputter
Example Sentences
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Boston’s biotech sector, long a vital economic engine for one of America’s wealthiest metro areas, is sputtering.
Lexington’s economic engine is sputtering to a halt.
But as labor shortages, high interest rates and a costly fiscal squeeze begins to bite, growth is sputtering.
If AI enthusiasm sputters, though, good old reliable, 7%-growing India may not look so bad again.
From Barron's
The good news is that it has shown few signs of sputtering toward the end of the year.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
