stemmed

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Sales at retailers rose in April for the third month in a row, but the increase stemmed in large part from drivers spending more on gas due to higher prices.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

Sales at retailers rose in April for the third month in a row, but the increase stemmed in large part from drivers spending more on gasoline because of higher prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Roughly two-thirds of March’s monthly jump stemmed from a historic 15.5% leap in gasoline sales, which was largely a reflection of higher prices rather than stronger sales volumes.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

The crux of the outrage surrounding Fennell’s film stemmed largely from the fact that she refused to rename her relatively loose, aesthetic-minded adaptation with a title that didn’t directly reference Emily Brontë’s novel.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

These differences stemmed ultimately from Eurasia’s much longer history of densely populated, economically specialized, politically centralized, interacting and competing societies dependent on food production.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond