stagnant
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The job market wasn’t so stagnant just a few years ago.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 11, 2026
In 2015, after years of stagnant growth, Tinder started marketing itself as a friend-finding app to better appeal to young people.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2026
Nokia’s stock price has risen roughly 90% so far this year as investors embrace its new identity as an AI infrastructure company with a stagnant legacy mobile business attached.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026
The same stagnant air that intensifies the heat can also worsen air quality by trapping pollutants close to the surface.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2026
Underneath me, the tub’s curved bottom had become damp grass, the musk of dirt and stagnant water in my nostrils.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Vocabulary lists containing stagnant
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Vocabulary from the Third and Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
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