How to Use economic in a Sentence

economic

adjective
  • We're looking for a more economic way of doing business.
  • The metro and regional level is stable, Lehner said, and some of the economic activity that is missing downtown will likely pick up in the next few years.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • And like so many other victims of natural disasters, now begins a balancing act between physical and economic recovery.
    Will McGough, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the United States’ economic and cultural postwar dominance grew.
    Wilson Tarbox, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • And now the country is in the grip of an economic crisis.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The economic impact of a fur ban hits close to home too.
    Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The prospect of an economic recession is one that sends a chill down the spine of many.
    Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2023
  • But as was predicted at the time of the ban, there have been economic costs.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2022
  • If India’s economic unity broke, so would the largest free trade area in the world.
    Raghvendra Singh, Quartz India, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Stocks have been in slump so far this year as investors get hit with a long list of threats to economic growth and the markets.
    Damian J. Troise, ajc, 1 Feb. 2022
  • At the same time, economic growth is slowing, a potential drag on the firms' top-line.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The wider cost of the strike could be disastrous for an economic sector that’s still woozy from the punch of the pandemic.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
  • There is no economic agenda that has much of a near-term chance of getting done.
    William D. Cohan, The Hive, 18 Aug. 2017
  • But despite the economic woe, Mr Macri may have a genuine chance.
    The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
  • If the money supply grew too slowly, the Fed could cut rates to spur economic growth.
    Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The economic bubble that had given rise to Socialite Rank was about to pop.
    Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 17 May 2023
  • This technology would be by far the most economic way to end all life on earth.
    Rupert Goodwins, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2017
  • All these factors and more also help explain why economic growth in the rich world is weak.
    The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Cowen concludes that the best way to maximize all of these things for the future is to increase economic growth.
    Paul Bloo, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021
  • Most of the economic benefits went to Israelis, and people could see that.
    Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The Eras Tour's economic impact is predicted to be in the billions of dollars.
    Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Meet the high-finance mogul in charge of our economic recovery.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2021
  • There certainly are some more economic concerns in the mix so time will tell if this pans out.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2024
  • The damage would threaten to undo many of the economic benefits of last year's tax cuts.
    NBC News, 6 July 2018
  • But there is a special place in hell for the economic advisers that conjured up this trade war.
    Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • The Harris campaign has countered that the vice president’s economic plan will not add to the deficit.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Oh, and don’t forget the recent economic hit from the pandemic.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Biden’s economic plan rests on a daring wager that rates stay low.
    Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Investors had long awaited stimulus measures as economic growth in the world’s second-largest economy slowed with China struggling to bounce back from Covid-19 lockdowns.
    Christine Wang, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
  • At the root was a frustration with a political and economic system designed during the Pinochet regime, along with social conditions that preceded it, such as Chile’s entrenched hierarchies of race and class.
    Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024

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