industries
Example Sentences
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To finance the initiative, he invoked the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law that grants the president broad authority to support industries considered vital to national security.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
She launched Mobolise to tackle what she called the "scary underrepresentation of black talent" across influential industries.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Really, the constraint on Chinese growth is chronic malinvestment of the country’s savings, which are diverted toward export-manufacturing industries and low-productivity state-owned enterprises rather than toward investment in domestic services and the like.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
These kinds of commoditized industries tend to succumb to price wars: The lowest-cost producer “wins” by destroying the entire industry’s margins.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
The deep-pile carpets, the expensive genuine wood desks, reminded him that garbage collecting and trash disposal had, since the war, become one of Earth’s important industries.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
