How to Use eurozone in a Sentence

eurozone

noun
  • Italy has stagnated for years and its economy, the third-largest in the eurozone, has lagged its main European partners.
    Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Slowing growth in Germany is a downbeat sign for the entire 19-country eurozone.
    David McHugh, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Meanwhile, Italy’s public spending plans could trigger a re-emergence of the eurozone’s debt crisis — if bond investors start thinking the country is too risky.
    David McHugh, The Seattle Times, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Tensions over international trade haven’t abated, creating a headache for the eurozone’s large exporters.
    Paul Hannon, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Greece is still suffering from the effects of a decade-long economic crisis and the resultant austerity program imposed on it by eurozone lenders.
    Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
  • She is set to take the reins as the ECB faces critical decisions in the coming months over how to support the eurozone’s sagging economy.
    Tom Fairless, WSJ, 4 July 2019
  • There is a strong case to be made for the EU and the eurozone, at least as an alternative to other recent forms of European mismanagement.
    Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
  • This time, the eurozone is being buffeted by international trade tensions, and investors have grown markedly more cautious about future levels of inflation.
    Tom Fairless, WSJ, 30 June 2019
  • Prices in the eurozone went up by 8.1% in the month of May, hitting a record high for the seventh month in a row.
    Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 16 June 2022
  • The rate of inflation across the eurozone hit a record high of 8.9% in July.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The fear is that the fall forecast for 5% growth this year in the 19-nation eurozone could still be hurt by the end-of-year virus crisis.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 25 Nov. 2021
  • As such, the eurozone GDP is expected to contract this year for the first time since 2013.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 July 2020
  • Much of the eurozone, in fact, went into the deflation zone last month.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The turmoil couldn’t have come at a worse time for the eurozone’s third-largest economy.
    Nicole Winfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2022
  • Montenegro may be joining the eurozone in the next few years.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There are signs that inflation has peaked in the United States, Britain and many eurozone economies.
    Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • There are signs that inflation has peaked in the United States, Britain, and many eurozone economies.
    Eshe Nelson and Melissa Eddy, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Even at the lower pace, that would still be enough for the ECB to soak up all the new debt issued by eurozone governments through the end of this year.
    David McHugh, ajc, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Inflation in Spain peaked over 10% in June, compared to 8.6% for the eurozone.
    Joseph Wilson, ajc, 21 July 2022
  • Countries in the eurozone also abide by stricter debt rules.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The forecast net cash requirement for 2024 is a record since the formation of the eurozone, the strategists say.
    WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The World Bank projects the global economy to have pulled back by 4.3% last year, dragged down by a 7.4% contraction in the eurozone.
    Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2021
  • In 2008, at current prices, the American and eurozone economies were roughly the same size.
    Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • One illustration of that difference is prices of used cars, which have climbed more in the U.S. than in the eurozone.
    Paul Hannon, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
  • That means that the eurozone fell into a recession over the winter months, and growth this year is likely to be weak.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 13 June 2023
  • That compares with estimates of 9.5% for the U.S. and 12% for the eurozone, highlighting the scale of the U.K.’s economic hit. ...
    Jason Douglas, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Consumer prices in the eurozone rose at the fastest pace in 13 years during September.
    WSJ, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The euro continues its long fade as Omicron (and Delta) alarm bells ring across the eurozone.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The financial crisis of 2008 and the eurozone debt crisis that followed undermined the appeal of the EU as an economic union.
    Joshua Keating, Vox, 2 July 2024
  • France is running one of the highest deficits in the eurozone and now risks falling foul of the European Commission’s new fiscal rules, which had been suspended to help countries recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and energy crisis.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 4 July 2024

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