stagnation
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He focused on a handful of issues—cronyism and corruption, economic stagnation and inflation, and decaying public services.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The unrest was triggered by a ban on social media but fuelled by anger against corruption, unemployment and economic stagnation.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
It’s a dynamic that has echoes of Japan’s postbubble stagnation, though China’s trajectory is still far from sealed.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
The result was a decade of high inflation, which, combined with slow growth and high unemployment, was forever branded as “stagflation” — a combination of stagnation and inflation.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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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