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stagnate

[stag-neyt] / ˈstæg neɪt /


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Investors believe it will usher in a new era of earnings growth as EV sales stagnate.

From Barron's Jun. 9, 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

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

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

“Decoupling seller profit from buyer satisfaction impedes economic growth and slows innovation. Buyer surplus stagnates and inflation accelerates.”

From MarketWatch Apr. 6, 2026

The result could be a "stagflationary shock of pretty large magnitude" - where inflation goes up and growth stagnates, Arvind Subramanian, India's former chief economic adviser, told India Today TV channel.

From BBC Apr. 6, 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

Fields which slope considerably, and so regularly that water never stagnates upon or near their surface, do very well without.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace

While life expectancy has stagnated, in more than 90% of areas, healthy life expectancy has dropped below the state pension age, with Britons now living about a quarter of their lives in poor health.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Per capita gross domestic product has stagnated for about a decade, crawling from $1,380 in 2015 to $1,478 in 2024 at market exchange rates.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

In 2015, purse sales stagnated because customers grew tired of heavily logoed looks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Other celebrities, including Kris Jenner, Joy Behar, and Cara Delevingne, have also listed properties that stagnated on the market for years.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

As far as he knew, the American program for the Super, the thermonuclear bomb, had stagnated.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Yet we have an economy seemingly trapped in low growth, high debt and stagnating real incomes with voters feeling the bitter reality of a cost-of-living crisis.

From BBC May 16, 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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