inelastic
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But as Te Haumihiata Mason, a translator working in Māori, points out to Mr. Hahn, in New Zealand few plants bud in May, so an inelastic approach here risks puzzling the audience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
It’s about structural supply constraints meeting inelastic industrial demand.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 3, 2026
I’m also positive on Vital Farms, the market leader in pasture-raised eggs—an inelastic product at grocery stores.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
In fact, our working paper suggests that prison demand is not only inelastic but drives incarceration, not the other way around.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2024
She skipped clumsily, with an inelastic energy of gesture like a cow capering in a spring-time pasture.
From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy
Vocabulary lists containing inelastic
Engineering - Introductory
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