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Wages have stagnated while housing, child care and food costs have climbed.—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2025 Yet many experts figure the economy will stagnate within a few months and a growing share foresee a recession by the second half of 2025.—Paul Davidson, USA Today, 1 May 2025 The impact of high interest rates, a skyrocketing housing market and stagnating wages mean that Millennials and Gen-Z in particular are feeling the squeeze.—Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025 Apple already faces pressure over its slow rollout of artificial intelligence features and stagnating hardware innovation.—Lisa Setyon,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 11 Apr. 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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