depress
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“These additional allowances would not only endanger our emissions targets, they would also flood the auction market and depress cap-and-invest revenues,” said Pam Odell of the group Climate Action California.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
Crucially, the oil benchmark would likely creep higher than global oil prices, which would discourage foreign buyers, depress exports and make more crude available to domestic markets.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
That does sort of artificially depress the average personal saving rate.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
The new plants caused concerns that a supply glut was about to depress prices for the next two to five years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
It didn't exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn't make me feel gay as hell, either.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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