stagnant
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“This is driven by the current competitive environment, which is impacted by stagnant market demand, price pressure, and increasing constraints on cost competitiveness,” it said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
But this means little to the workers in Foshan, who are frustrated by stagnant wages.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Many Indian workers, including migrants, face precarious finances due to rising prices and stagnant wages, leading some to quit jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
The aim would be to bolster a stagnant labor market and drum up demand in key areas of the economy such as housing that have suffered from high borrowing costs.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
But gradually we warmed to one another again and spent several hours poking about a stagnant pond and playing a game of nineholes with stones, and in other pursuits too trivial to recount.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Vocabulary lists containing stagnant
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