How to Use economist in a Sentence

economist

noun
  • Economists are predicting rapid inflation.
  • But that may not be the case this time, economists said.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Such risks, some economists say, are a reason for the Fed to be cautious.
    Joe Rennison, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • For some, like Micah, the economist, 78º during the day is just fine.
    Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 3 July 2024
  • The deficit, economists say, is a result of the unique features of the U.S. economy.
    Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The phrase came from a 2022 paper by a group of economists and referred to a risk of the post-pandemic era.
    Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Heading home for the holidays?:Here are the cheapest day to fly, from a travel economist.
    Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Wage growth slowed further last month, the economists said.
    Amara Omeokwe, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • My economist father was on the other side of the country, or in his apartment across town, or in the sky.
    Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • For now, economists say, the best that consumers can hope for is that prices stop going up so fast.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But there are economists that say the economy did not grow that fast.
    Taylor Haney, NPR, 15 June 2024
  • Joseph Schumpeter claimed that the work of the economist has two elements.
    Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
  • But the year-on-year measure was below the 5% that economists predicted in a poll by Reuters.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 10 May 2023
  • The April jobs report, which beat economists’ forecasts, showed the 28th straight month of solid job growth.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The economist shared details about one of their trips to Orange Hill, Jamaica, in 1970.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
  • But Luther, the FAU economist, isn’t so sure that the long lists of open jobs support the idea that workers have a real upper hand.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Bloomberg surveyed economists from around the world to gather views on those three debates.
    Jana Randow, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The outcomes of not raising the debt ceiling are in less dispute, economists say.
    Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • The illnesses were so disruptive that the labor economist quit her full-time job at the Rand Corp., a think tank.
    CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • And the current crisis will cause banks to pull back on lending but not nearly as much as in 2008, economists say.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
  • And lately, the economist has been even more steadfast in his stance due to wage increases.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Garber is an economist and physician who has served as provost for 12 years.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But a few thought the Fed would hit pause, including economists at Goldman Sachs.
    Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • That, at least, is the forecast of an econometric model run by Ray Fair, a Yale economist.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • For now, most economists agree the US economy will likely be spared a downturn this year.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The economist on Thursday again alluded to the idea of trying to keep U.S. Steel in domestic hands.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The city’s chief economist, Ted Egan, has warned about a looming loss of tax revenue as vacancies pile up.
    Conor Dougherty, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
  • For months, employers have churned out jobs at a pace that has baffled economists.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • Those readings were in-line with economist expectations, according to Dow Jones.
    Hakyung Kim,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
  • But with funding a big issue, economists caution about subsidies.
    Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025

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