contraction
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The new orders index increased to 60.9 in August, while the employment index remained in contraction territory for a second straight month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Global cargo demand rose 3.9% on year in July, but traffic on the Europe-Middle East corridor fell 16.1% and Middle East-Asia volumes dropped 14.1%, marking a fifth consecutive month of contraction for both routes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
An initiative of this magnitude could accelerate long-awaited economic recovery in Venezuela, a country still reeling from the brutal 80 percent contraction between 2014 and 2021 that plunged millions of Venezuelans into poverty.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Statistics Canada previously estimated a slim 0.1% contraction for the first three months of the year, on the heels of a 1% drop in GDP in the last quarter of 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Some scientists think that when expansion is followed by contraction, when the spectra of distant galaxies are all blue-shifted, causality will be inverted and effects will precede causes.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Canada’s economy was growing in recent months and industry-level data points to annualized expansion of 3.4% in the second quarter, which would be the strongest in roughly three years and follows back-to-back quarterly contractions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The compound significantly reduced contractions triggered by several signaling molecules, including acetylcholine, histamine, prostaglandin F2α, and serotonin.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
She warned that oil-exporting countries in the Gulf had been badly hit by the war, and face "steep downward revisions to growth this year, with five out of eight countries seeing outright contractions."
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
While still an effective painkiller, ibuprofen can be a better choice for period pain because it blocks the production of prostaglandins - the chemical responsible for causing the cramping contractions of muscles in the womb.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
As they backtracked through Pike Place Market, Edith was hit by another wave of contractions.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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