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stagnate

[stag-nayt] / ˈstæg neɪt /


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"It's already starting to stagnate, so that's serious," said Catriona Bass, director of the Long Mead Foundation.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Whether he takes a wrecking ball to it or lets it stagnate, the Kennedy Center threatens to become his latest victim.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

“That means once investors make an allocation it is reasonable to see that it will stagnate for a while causing volatility with lower volumes of shares traded,” he said in emailed comments.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

And in late 2022 and early 2023, many followed the crowd into small stocks as they rebounded strongly, only for them to stagnate while Big Tech powered ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Without standardized materials and methods, they worried that the field of tissue culture would stagnate.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

What if Anthropic’s customer growth dwindles or stagnates?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Today, they’re deeply frustrated with the results as the gaming industry stagnates and consumers face higher prices on everything from memory to storage drives and graphics cards.

From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026

The opposite can occur if the economy stagnates or shrinks.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Last year's emissions cuts were driven by falls in energy-intensive industries, many of which are struggling as the economy stagnates, and record solar power generation.

From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026

Even the greatest love stagnates if it is kept out of the main current of life.

From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by William F. (William Frederick) Bigelow

The French economy had already stagnated in the second quarter after contracting by 0.2 percent in the first.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Although the country still imports large quantities of soybeans, beef and dairy products, agricultural imports have stagnated in recent years as food output increases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

While inflation rates have been increasing this year, the rates on many high-yield savings accounts have largely stagnated.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

The city’s vouchers for the Community Cat Program have stagnated compared with vouchers for individuals with pets, Naitaki said, leading to explosive kitten seasons like this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Berkeley’s ability to exploit its increasingly inventive faculty’s work stagnated under this lumbering regime until 1931, when Sproul met Frederick Cottrell.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The company’s specialized optical fiber is a key component of hyperscale data centers, allowing the company to shift away from reliance on major telecom clients amid stagnating spending in that industry in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The market for asset-backed commercial paper teetered on the brink of collapse during the financial crisis before stagnating for a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But it has struggled to thrive in recent years amid fierce competition from online giants like Amazon, with sales stagnating.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Currently, stocks of hyperscalers at the front end of the AI boom are stagnating with falls in free cash flow, while chips, infrastructure providers and optical networking gain.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

He did, however, drink water, and the area reeked of urine stagnating in the toilet bowl.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover


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