deterioration

Example Sentences

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While pockets of stress are emerging within private credit, the issues appear isolated rather than indicative of widespread deterioration in lending standards or balance-sheet quality.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

"If we do the right thing early in the illness, and support people with the right level of pacing, you can prevent that deterioration in a lot of cases."

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

“Fed officials are likely to resume easing only for clear ‘good’ reasons—more rapid progress toward the 2% inflation target—or clear ‘bad’ reasons—a meaningful deterioration in labor market conditions,” he wrote.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

A deterioration in global sentiment, however, could have a lopsided impact on Brazilian markets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

The flight instructors mistakenly attributed the pilots’ deterioration to their praise of them, and likewise the pilots’ improvement to their criticism; both, however, were simply regressions to the more likely mean performance.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos