inelastic
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While higher prices could trigger reduced buying or weaker demand in the near term, he expects limited substitutes and inelastic demand to cushion the impact.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
“The likelihood of a prolonged period of higher energy prices, decelerating credit card data and channel checks have investors skeptical on how inelastic air travel demand can be,” he added.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 5, 2026
I’m also positive on Vital Farms, the market leader in pasture-raised eggs—an inelastic product at grocery stores.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
In fact, our working paper suggests that prison demand is not only inelastic but drives incarceration, not the other way around.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2024
This freely-growing Gnostic religiosity aroused in the Church an increasingly strong movement towards unity and a firm and inelastic organization, towards authority and tradition.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing inelastic
Engineering - Introductory
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