recession
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Figures released Friday showed the eurozone economy contracted in the first three months of the year, leaving it at risk of a slide into recession.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
For a while, experts linked the decline to the recession that struck in 2008 when the global financial system nearly imploded, driving millions of people into hardship.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
When then-Fed Chair Paul Volcker had to sharply raise rates in the 1980s to get inflation under control, it triggered a severe recession.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
The other example might be more alarming, seeing as it is the only one that didn’t follow a recession, Reid said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
The discovery of the Big Bang and the recession of the galaxies came from a commonplace of nature called the Doppler effect.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing recession
Western Europe - Introductory
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East Asia - Middle School
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East Asia - High School
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