How to Use stagnation in a Sentence

stagnation

noun
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  • That seems to break through that stagnation, that grip on your throat.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
  • To sign the dotted line in an era of stagnation for the sport’s top fighters.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Talks in search of a cease-fire and hostage release have ground into stagnation.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The country has grappled with stagnation for over a decade.
    — David Feliba, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The shift for Peck comes as some people close to the campaign blame her for the campaign's current struggles and stagnation in the polls.
    — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That decades-long stagnation has left judges struggling to keep up, court officials say.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • Pittman and guard Brady Latham seemed at a loss to explain what is causing the offensive stagnation.
    — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Coaches will face questions about schematic changes designed to ward off the stagnation that set in over the second half of last season.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2022
  • That stagnation, Thiel claimed in his lecture at Yale, was linked to the credentialist rat race Vance and his classmates were engaged in.
    — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Yet this period of stagnation in the fleet has coincided with a rise in car sales worldwide.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Reorganizing the deckchairs in the city of London will not save the London Stock Market from stagnation.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The stock of great companies will generally go up over the long run, but there can be bumps and occasional stagnation along the way.
    — Dallas News, 21 June 2020
  • Stagflation is a term that refers to high inflation that happens at the same time as stagnation of growth or outright recession.
    — Nouriel Roubini, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The key to how stagflation works is found in the three economic forces that make it up: stagnation, high inflation, and high unemployment.
    — Jim Probasco, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Right now, America wage growth and stagnation has been a plaguing issue.
    — Britney Porter, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • His work focuses on the West Coast, real estate and wage stagnation among U.S. workers.
    — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Stubbornly high inflation, years of wage stagnation and the sudden and steep rise in energy prices have left millions of Brits on the brink of poverty.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • Some even saw in him a chance for political change after a long period of stagnation.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • As wage stagnation and high inflation set in, the national mood shifted.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, across the Atlantic in the U.K. the number of 18-year olds applying to go to university has been rising sharply in the last two years, following 5 years of stagnation.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Since the passage of Title IX in 1972, there have been steady declines and stagnations in the proportions of women head coaches across collegiate sport.
    — Lindsey Darvin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • After making the playoffs a few times in the early 2000s, Higley experienced a bit of a stagnation, not making the playoffs until last year.
    — Alex Chenevey, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That's a recipe for more stagnation On paper, the headline numbers suggest the BOJ’s inflation target has already been met.
    — Laura He, CNN, 28 July 2023
  • That stagnation has led to an abrupt decline in job openings, which could fall further if the economy enters a recession next year.
    — Desmond Lachman, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The capsule that held the fusion fuel was made thicker, and the power of the lasers was turned up by 8% while their symmetry was adjusted, says Arthur Pak, the team lead of stagnation science in the lab’s fusion work.
    — Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Income stagnation isn’t the only problem wealthy countries have faced.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • And as a measure of a city’s overall revival or stagnation, crime statistics are not the most informative piece of the larger puzzle.
    — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The political stagnation and economic malaise of the Brezhnev era left behind a regime too rotten to be reformed.
    — WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Some point to the pessimism young people in Japan hold toward the future, many frustrated with work pressure and economic stagnation.
    — Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Acupuncture is also a great way to treat disharmony in the body—there are specific points that treat liver fire, stagnation and depression.
    — Hannah Coates, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2024

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