stagnant
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Hannah Pedone and Aditi Shrikant looked into the prospects of an increasing number of corporate buyout offers in a stagnant labor market.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
PulteGroup PHM -0.84%decrease; red down pointing triangle reported lower first-quarter profit as a stagnant housing market forced it to offer elevated sales incentives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
But this means little to the workers in Foshan, who are frustrated by stagnant wages.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
He will shake up a stagnant institution at a time when change is sorely needed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Here was one of those stagnant educations, never used except for parading a lot of big words.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Vocabulary lists containing stagnant
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Vocabulary from the Third and Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
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