wages
Example Sentences
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The gloom has a lot to do with high prices and wages that are struggling to keep up.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
While high prices are felt by most people in the country, they are especially painful for those living in red areas, where poverty rates are typically higher and wages are usually lower.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Policymakers are closely watching whether spillovers into wages and prices will create an inflationary impulse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But the long hours, low wages and changing aspirations have made the profession less attractive to younger Kashmiris.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
She was the daughter of King Laomedon, who had cheated Apollo and Poseidon of their wages after at Zeus’s command they had built for the King the walls of Troy.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
