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The housing market itself is one problem, as sales of existing homes, a key driver of improvement spending, stagnate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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

Don Was, musician and producer: In life, as exemplified by music, if you don’t change, you stagnate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

As I have written elsewhere, this was the pivotal decade when American culture began to stagnate.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

Their assignment was to stagnate and live in the past.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

As growth in pizza sales stagnates, competition between restaurants has intensified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

The mind stagnates for want of employment, and is extinguished, like a candle in foul air.—Johnson.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

Heavy responsibility will lie with loan signing Alejandro Garnacho, whose career has stagnated, while hopes are high for Brazil midfielder Joao Gomes, who was signed from Wolves for £38m.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

But in a summer of soaring temperatures, The Hundred's crowds have stagnated.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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

One of them: to shore up consumption, which has stagnated in recent years, by opening up retail across the whole week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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

"It's really stagnating our populations here, because we need to be able to move animals to create healthy breeding pools to look after the genetics of our populations," Biddle said.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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

Given all that, it is flat-out wrong to say that AI adoption is stagnating, says Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor who studies how companies adopt AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Some are concerned that AI could worsen what’s called a “K-shaped” economy, in which the rich see growth and most other people struggle with stagnating opportunities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

“I just feel like I’m stagnating, and it’s pretty obvious Sam isn’t interested in my development.”

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad