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As Tesla’s sales stagnate, Elon Musk, busy with a new job in Washington, seems to be doing little to turn the company around.—Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025 Cramer said some groups are stagnating, others are soaring, and others are completely falling apart.—Julie Coleman, CNBC, 19 Feb. 2025 The aging trend is having, or will have, two distinct impacts, one on the elderly population itself as its needs for housing, medical care and other services increase, and the other on the state as a whole as the number of working-age adults stagnates.—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025 The aging trend is having, or will have, two distinct impacts, one on the elderly population itself as its needs for housing, medical care and other services increase, and the other on the state as a whole as the number of working age adults stagnates.—Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stagnate
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Etymology
Latin stagnatus, past participle of stagnare, from stagnum body of standing water
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