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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

He started Sunday with a sputter, including a double bogey on the par-three fourth and a bogey shortly after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

If an oil shock persisted long enough, economic growth could also sputter.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026

December’s feasts and fêtes are a cook’s crucible, but by January, chances are your kitchen stamina has begun to sputter out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

In the distance, I heard the generators sputter and spin down, and all the lights along the harbor and in house windows behind me surged for a moment before going dark.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Thankfully, there are a few moments when the album sputters into life.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

But as the red-hot chip-stock rally sputters, even the biggest bulls are wondering how much longer the latest leg of the AI frenzy can last and where money might go as it fades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Small-cap companies tend to have weaker balance sheets, higher debt loads and can become more vulnerable to defaults than major corporations if the economy sputters.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

A street market in a Buenos Aires working-class neighborhood bustles with desperate Argentines who have taken to hawking their belongings to make ends meet as the economy sputters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025

She sputters, she's so angry, but then she draws herself up, pulling out the Mask that lives at her core.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Canada's economy had sputtered over the past year, as Trump's tariffs squeezed key sectors like auto-making, forced job losses and sent jitters across the business community.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Some past attempts to innovate, from selling bottled drinks to what Coke called a “Freestyle” soda dispenser that let customers create their own mixes, have sputtered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

While Hernández found contact on each of his at-bats, the rest of the team sputtered through six innings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Throughout the year, several high-profile OpenAI commitments have sputtered, thanks to the company’s newfound frugality as well as an increasing sense of dissatisfaction from its business pals.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Jonah had never before seen Dad so angry that he actually sputtered.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

"We directly introduced dislocations in CoAl during sputtering deposition," Zhang said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

The company blamed the poor outlook on sputtering growth from its key branded-checkout product, which lets customers use PayPal when making online purchases, and poor internal execution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The director’s moaning score here, supplemented with sputtering engines and clanking chains, underline the movie’s ghost-story vibe — the sense that poor Nick is both alive and dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

China’s economy has been sputtering for a years, with consumers especially reluctant to spend, hurting some of those companies.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

As we approached the cotton field, Papa slowed down and parked our sputtering Carcachita on the roadside, near the cotton trailer.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez