inelastic

Example Sentences

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To the extent that drivers could not reduce their consumption — demand for gas is relatively “inelastic” in economic parlance — the tax increase would “stick.”

From Washington Post

“Higher education is a really stubborn and inelastic institution,” said Rachel Baker, a professor of education at the University of California at Irvine, and one of the researchers who surveyed those community college students.

From Washington Post

Unfortunately, it will take more than extra-cheap gasoline to get us out of our houses at the moment; as an economist would say, our demand for oil is suddenly highly inelastic.

From Washington Post

Back then we were told that vice is inelastic, right?

From The Guardian

The biggest mistake is not understanding how inelastic vote choice has become given the levels of political polarization in this country.

From Salon