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a puddle of stagnating water
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The Knicks offense stagnated once again in their seventh game without the captain, the second leg of a road back-to-back on Thursday, failing to reach just barely reaching the century mark in a 115-98 loss to the Charlotte Hornets.
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
Consequently, as the US population expanded, the number of physicians stagnated.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
This finding is consistent with data showing median household income largely stagnating after 2000 and the typical male worker now having to work the equivalent of 62 weeks per year (yes, more than 52 weeks) to afford the same middle-class essentials 40 weeks of work would have covered in 1985.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
Germany’s economy has stagnated for the past five years, and most of Merz’s solutions to that seem to come at the expense of workers or the environment: reducing unemployment benefits, creating incentives for Germans to work longer hours, and rolling back climate regulation.
—Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
Consequently, as the US population expanded, the number of physicians stagnated.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
This finding is consistent with data showing median household income largely stagnating after 2000 and the typical male worker now having to work the equivalent of 62 weeks per year (yes, more than 52 weeks) to afford the same middle-class essentials 40 weeks of work would have covered in 1985.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
Germany’s economy has stagnated for the past five years, and most of Merz’s solutions to that seem to come at the expense of workers or the environment: reducing unemployment benefits, creating incentives for Germans to work longer hours, and rolling back climate regulation.
—Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Stagnate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stagnate. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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