lost ground
Example Sentences
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This is the second month in a row that wages have lost ground against consumer prices, following a disastrous March.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
Shares of companies making discretionary consumer goods also lost ground, weighing on the S&P 500, which finished 0.2% lower.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The Conservatives have also lost ground while Reform UK had a good night, winning over 350 council seats and gaining control of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Havering.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
In recent years, the company had lost ground to new rivals, closed stores and cut staff.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
If those classrooms held their gains while the classrooms with a suspected cheater lost ground, the cheating teachers could hardly argue that their students did worse only because the scores wouldn’t count.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
