stagnation
Example Sentences
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The demonstrations tapped into wider public anger at economic stagnation and political corruption in the country of 30 million people.
From Barron's
But since the end of the Civil War, its economy has languished, becoming a synonym for stagnation and backwardness.
With the stagnation in the job market, there’s a lot of factors involved.
The lyrics are the only giveaway that this is the work of a band in their late middle age - as Jarvis Cocker sings movingly about stagnation, divorce and mortality.
From BBC
People must refuse to accept stagnation or decline and relentlessly move forward.
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