stagnation
Example Sentences
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These bottlenecks put distance between today’s cost and tomorrow’s reward, creating another potential reason for AI’s valuation stagnation.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
Japan’s economy remains at some risk as it emerges from several lost decades of stagnation, and the Iran war oil shock is another danger.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
With the hands of central banks tied, investors are worried about the risk of stagflation -- a period of economic stagnation and inflation -- such as what happened after the first oil shock in 1973.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
And they did during the 1970s, an era of repeated energy crises and endemic “stagflation,” meaning economic stagnation combined with inflation.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026
New Orleans is. on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing stagnation
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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President Trump's First State of The Union Address (2018)
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