How to Use deregulation in a Sentence

deregulation

noun
  • In the early years of the new century the state suffered widespread blackouts thanks to a botched deregulation of its electricity market.
    Washington Post, Orange County Register, 22 Oct. 2019
  • In the nineteen-eighties, the push for deregulation and the weakening of predatory-pricing laws gained momentum.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
  • President Trump promised an economy supercharged by the rocket-fuel of his tax cuts and deregulation.
    Christine Romans, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Add to that a passionately happy base of voters savoring a tax cut, a deregulation crusade and a growing army of conservative judges, as promised.
    David Von Drehle, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Trump has touted Zeldin as a person who will advocate for deregulation and allow for an expansion of fossil-fuel energy.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Carter signed many deregulation bills, which targeted airlines, interstate trucking and freight rail, with the goal of stimulating the economy.
    Alex Newman, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But Yamanaka, who has been one of the most prominent faces of those achievements, has remained relatively quiet on matters of deregulation.
    David Cyranoski, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The White House has been criticized for moving to implement eleventh-hour rules and regulations that are aimed at tying up Trump’s deregulation plans.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Jan. 2025
  • As 2019 draws to a close, there’s more than a whiff of banking deregulation in the air.
    Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • For the same reason so, so many things about the U.S. are so, so bad today: 1980s deregulation.
    Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2022
  • And thanks to the deregulation of the preceding decades, the industry was wide open.
    Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In 2018, the deregulation basically sent a signal to the Fed to stop the oversight on these banks.
    CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The early years of deregulation were good for the industry.
    Peter Eavis, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • One of the stakes in who controls the Senate in 2021 is the fate of the Trump Administration’s deregulation project.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2020
  • There's no doubt that Trump's tax cuts and deregulation helped boost markets.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Stick with the deregulation, Mr. President, and the price of hearing aids will fall far and fast enough that a subsidy isn’t needed.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • The good news is that the incentive boost from deregulation and lower taxes has been able to offset some of the costs of trade friction.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Truss vowed to stick with her plan to reshape Britain’s economy through tax cuts and deregulation in a bid to end years of sluggish growth.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In the former case, Congress convinced the public that deregulation caused the 2008 crisis.
    Norbert Michel, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Yet the road to deregulation has no shortage of Chicken Littles who fear life in a land governed by fewer rules.
    Patrick Pizzella, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
  • That seems unlikely, given the politics and the long record of deregulation in Texas.
    Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Year to date, the stock is up more than 200%, boosted in part by hope that a second Trump term will lead to deregulation for crypto and the broader finance sector.
    Brian Evans, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024
  • After deregulation, airlines dropped cities that had once served as hubs and pulled out of routes that were unprofitable.
    Alana Semuels, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Think of the old Texas Utilities Electric Co. before deregulation hit us at the turn of the century.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The collapse of two major banks in recent weeks has added scrutiny to deregulation in 2018.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Biden also took aim at Trump's deregulation of methane, a greenhouse gas that in the short term is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide.
    Adam Aton, Science | AAAS, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Biden also took aim at Trump’s deregulation of methane, a greenhouse gas that in the short term is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide.
    Adam Aton, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2020
  • That effectively ended deregulation in the state for the time.
    Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The Staggers Act is an example of deregulation done right.
    Ian Jefferies, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Hope of providing business deregulation measures through executive order on Trump’s first day in office has partly bolstered sentiment this week.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025

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