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consumers

NOUN
person who buys merchandise, services
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The results, driven by both businesses and consumers, add to evidence that the U.S. economy remains on a solid footing despite tariffs and high energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

This adds more pressure to inflation-squeezed consumers who are already increasingly relying on credit cards, raiding their emergency savings accounts and turning to buy-now-pay-later loans to afford essentials like groceries and gas.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon, said spending by consumers was still high, but "they are increasingly stretching their budgets to afford pricier goods and services."

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

The economic benefits to U.S. consumers and Apple’s 80,000 domestic employees and many other U.S. workers are obvious.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Plant domestication may be defined as growing a plant and thereby, consciously or unconsciously, causing it to change genetically from its wild ancestor in ways making it more useful to human consumers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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