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Example Sentences

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The chemical makers have high forward price/earnings ratios because profitability is at a low ebb in the chemical cycle right now.

From Barron's

Markets are expected to closely watch for signals that the central bank’s thinking on future cuts is shifting, as its urgency to support growth is ebbing, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Greenfield recounts the ebb and flow of Shepard’s growth as a playwright, and chronicles how the fame and adulation from his life as a movie actor both propelled and thwarted his gifts as a writer.

From Washington Post

The looming debt crisis comes with relations between the world’s two largest economies at a low ebb.

From Washington Post

It's like this ebb and flow, and then rumination as that anxiety is circling.

From Salon