stagnation
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Their obsession with loyalty and often-imagined conspiracies ended with purges of some of the UFW’s most dynamic leaders and organizing stagnation, even as field hands continued to labor under abysmal conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
“But the direction is unmistakable. Where there was stagnation, there is now investment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
It is the latest evidence that Europe's biggest economy is gaining strength after several years of stagnation, boosted by a public spending blitz.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The immovability of both songs has raised questions about stagnation in the charts, and whether streaming services are doing enough to promote new music.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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