stagnate
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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
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
Their assignment was to stagnate and live in the past.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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What if Anthropic’s customer growth dwindles or stagnates?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
“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
The Effect of this is still more dangerous, because that putrify'd Water, which stagnates during the hot Season, suffers its Vapours to exhale more easily, and more abundantly, than that in the Curtain Lines did.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
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
While inflation rates have been increasing this year, the rates on many high-yield savings accounts have largely stagnated.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
He tells me he'd tried diets in the past which worked for the first stone and then "stagnated".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Meanwhile, legacy rivals stagnated: Stellantis gained just 6%, Volkswagen edged up 2.6%, and Renault fell 4.2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
As far as he knew, the American program for the Super, the thermonuclear bomb, had stagnated.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
Sales shot up, boosting the company while it grappled with stagnating sales in the U.S. and other developed markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
"I think we're stagnating too much and we need to develop the economy," Aia Laucina, a 49-year-old employee of the European Commission, told AFP, adding the country needs "to work on demography".
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
However, since early July oil prices have been "creeping upwards until the middle of the month then stagnating".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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
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