inflation

Example Sentences

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The doctors' union has argued that resident doctors' pay is still a fifth lower than it was in 2008, due to inflation.

From BBC

BOJ officials raised their policy rate target in response to persistent inflation, a painful novelty for households in a country that battled flat or falling prices for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the last two years, the country -- already known for its brutal inequality -- has been battered by double digit inflation, characterised as the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

From Barron's

However, she added that "the low inflation reading may prove temporary as shutdown-related data collection disruptions likely suppressed the figure, which could normalise higher once data gathering processes resume".

From Barron's

"Like many businesses, we continue to feel the impact of inflation and rising supply chain costs," Andrew Haines, Network Rail's then-chief executive said in an update this summer.

From BBC