sputter

Example Sentences

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As Boston’s biotech engine sputters, Ph.D.s can’t find work.

From The Wall Street Journal

Boston’s biotech sector, long a vital economic engine for one of America’s wealthiest metro areas, is sputtering.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lexington’s economic engine is sputtering to a halt.

From The Wall Street Journal

But as labor shortages, high interest rates and a costly fiscal squeeze begins to bite, growth is sputtering.

From The Wall Street Journal

If AI enthusiasm sputters, though, good old reliable, 7%-growing India may not look so bad again.

From Barron's