recession
Example Sentences
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The extent of this growth means consumption has grown despite a reduction in real disposable income over the last year or so — which would have previously implied a recession.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
“A perspicacious analyst might wonder whether talk of inflation, recession and other factors would fructify in a slower spending growth,” Moynihan said in an analyst call in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Everyone wants to point out recession indicators, but in a time of economic turmoil, felt most acutely by young people earning less money, every dollar counts.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
That figure raised the spectre of a technical recession -- when there are two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Ai says that similar theories have been propounded by Terran scholars to explain the still incomplete recession of their last Age of Ice.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing recession
Western Europe - Introductory
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East Asia - Middle School
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East Asia - High School
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