downturn
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No bear market or economic downturn came close to the awfulness of the Great Crash and the Depression, after all.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The governor has previously explained that difficult decisions must be made as the state could soon face an economic downturn.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Captains often experience a downturn in output the longer they spend in the post, with the pressures of the job a distraction from their own game.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Put all together it sounds alarming—a peak in prices normally indicates the memory-chip industry is primed a downturn in its boom-and-bust cycle.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
In 2004 he began to buy insurance on companies he thought might suffer in a real estate downturn: mortgage lenders, mortgage insurers, and so on.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing downturn
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 14
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Games of Deception
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"The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century," Vocabulary from Chapter 14
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