How to Use buying power in a Sentence
buying power
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So Medora, what does this new research find about the trend, kind of a bleak trend, that American's buying power is moving toward?
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
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But a year and a half ago, that equation flipped, and workers’ buying power began to rise again.
—Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2024
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People will accept higher prices if their buying power stays ahead of the curve.
—WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
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With mortgage rates near and above 7% for all of August, purchasers’ buying power was crushed, and for many the math for buying a home just did not work.
—Anna Bahney, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
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While the end of the cheap-money era hit buying power across Europe, a lack of supply is impacting prices in many cities.
—Henrique Almeida, Fortune Europe, 15 Dec. 2023
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The buying power of a large IEEE membership base helps keep costs down with affordable group rates.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2020
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Wages have been climbing faster than prices for over a year now, giving workers a real boost in their buying power.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 12 June 2024
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It should be noted that the buying power amongst African-Americans has reached more than $1 trillion per year.
—Goldie Chan, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
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The group was founded in the 1990s as Walmart and Sears began to use their buying power to offer discounts that other tire dealers couldn’t match.
—Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
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In foreign exchange markets, the dollar’s value is strong right now—the greenback has more buying power than it’s had for almost 20 years.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 20 May 2024
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The sharply higher home loan borrowing costs limited home hunters' buying power on top of years of soaring prices.
—CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
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But the low-budget movie resonated enough to turn a heavenly profit in its theatrical run, demonstrating the buying power of the Bible set.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 June 2023
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Fans were apparently eager to support the re-release, and their collective buying power has helped the project become a chart win once again.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
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This year, concerns about inflation, his shrinking buying power at the grocery store and the crisis at the southern border, have driven him to support Trump.
—Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
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The statistics are staggering: Latinos make up over 19% of the U.S. population and have a buying power of $3.4 trillion.
—Miguel Roggero, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Romance operates like a market, in other words, one in which some people have far more buying power than others.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
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That can compound over the years, eroding buying power for the oldest retirees in particular, Johnson said.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 May 2023
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From Barbie to Beyoncé to Taylor Swift, there was no denying the impact of women’s buying power this summer.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
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The forecast looks especially bad compared with the past decade The most important measure is the additional buying power the 4.9% annual gains will give you.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 June 2023
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And now interest rates have soared to a 20-year high, eroding buying power without — in defiance of normal economic logic — doing much to dent prices.
—Ben Casselman, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
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But its buying power has been eroded by inflation and dozens of worthy projects in recent years have been shelved or only partially completed, according to the fishing groups.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2023
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These small stores have less buying power than big markets, and when the economy is poor their customers are the first ones to cut back, especially on the more nutritious foods that also supply the markets with better profit margins.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
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Over a retirement that could last several decades, inflation can erode the buying power of your other assets, forcing a quicker spend-down and threatening your standard of living.
—Mark Miller, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
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In corporate America our buying power is a sleeping giant.
—Erik Maza, Town & Country, 29 Mar. 2023
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To Fain and his supporters, decades of relatively civil negotiations with the automakers brought little but pain for workers, who saw many of their factories close and their buying power fall.
—Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
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Another high-yield savings option Given today’s still-high rates of inflation, Series I savings bonds may be attractive because they’re designed to preserve the buying power of your money.
—Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
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While inflation remains higher than most government targets, rates reflect greater stability in markets, and in the buying power of employees.
—John M. Bremen, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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Average hourly earnings were up 4% from a year earlier which, coming alongside cooling inflation, shows that workers’ buying power increased.
—Justin Lahart, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2023
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Rising interest rates and persistently high asking prices have further eroded their buying power.
—Julian Mark, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
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But in a quirk of the calendar, Social Security beneficiaries are likely to miss out on another large improvement to their buying power in 2024, one year after seeing the largest annual cost-of-living adjustment in four decades.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 June 2023
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