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stagnant

adjective as in motionless, dirty

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We graduated into the Great Recession, burdened with debt and rewarded with stagnant wages, and endured the slowest economic growth faced by any generation in US history.

Starting in the 1990s, states sought to replicate the tribal model, gradually enabling nonreservation casinos to promote stagnant economies.

Another issue will be staffing, which has suffered in recent years from stagnant funding and a hiring freeze.

That means that some stagnant lid planets could create an atmosphere and even have temperate climates with liquid water, at least for a time.

Baker points out that this means workers may have to take in stagnant air that has been breathed in by people from multiple different households, upping their risk of catching a virus that may be floating around.

Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office.

Wages are stagnant and middle-class household incomes continue to decline.

Cory Gardner and others hammered on stagnant wages for the middle class.

Views on the controversial subject, Pew notes, have been more or less stagnant since 2005.

The stagnant pool of green water at the bottom of the ditch rises slightly.

But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."

A germ flies from a stagnant pool, and the laughing child, its mother's darling, dies dreadfully of diphtheria.

He was a refuge from herself; in his imperious demands her memory slept, her depths were stagnant.

A stagnant pool among some reeds caught the reflection of the sunset and changed on the instant into raw gold.

It was low and flat, and was traversed by broad ditches, generally full of stagnant water.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stagnant, such as: dormant, idle, inactive, lifeless, listless, and sluggish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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