stagnation
Example Sentences
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Despite the project’s stagnation, she continues to convey optimism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Unlike Buenos Aires, Tokyo has abundant foreign-exchange reserves and Japan’s economy is growing again after decades of stagnation and falling prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Dream started to decline some 50 years ago, beginning in the 1970s, with globalisation and wage stagnation, according to Mark Rank, co-author of Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Wage stagnation and the effects of the Great Recession are among the reasons cited by the researchers.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 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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