How to Use expansionary in a Sentence
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Holtz-Eakin thinks that expansionary policy isn’t the way to fix it.
—Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 27 May 2017
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For more than a year the Fed has been pursuing an expansionary policy for the ages.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 May 2021
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What’s your take on the prospect of, say, tax reform, expansionary policy this year?
—WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
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Himelsein is known for his mean expansionary approach to the markets.
—Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
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But the impact of expansionary fiscal policy peaked in the second quarter of this year.
—The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
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Some market participants have long thought that the US economy is at the end of its expansionary cycle.
—Anneken Tappe, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020
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The result was in line with the median forecast among economists polled by The Wall Street Journal and marked the third straight month that the measure was in expansionary territory.
—Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
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In the longer term, the country still faces the confluence of expansionary fiscal and monetary policy.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 June 2021
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The purpose is to contain the damage, not to be aggressively expansionary.
—Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 17 Feb. 2021
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If that’s the case, New York Fed researchers point out, there’s a simple way around them: expansionary fiscal policy that grows government debt and supplies new bonds to the market.
—Jeanna Smialek, Bloomberg.com, 6 Mar. 2018
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This kind of expansionary fiscal policy, which may be in place for years, could undermine attempts by central banks like the Fed to fight inflation.
—Steve Schifferes, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2023
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To date, Chinese expansionary tactics have for the most part involved incremental steps: moves not so provocative as to incite a response.
—The Economist, 21 June 2018
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The government switched to expansionary measures such as the easing on foreign-currency loans.
—David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
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Pricing should get better, even as the economic data is still expansionary.
—Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
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The impact of the expansionary measures are still filtering through the economy, with inflation above 10 percent for eight straight months through March, more than double the central bank’s target.
—Bloomberg.com, 3 Apr. 2018
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In fact, fiscal policy in the U.S. remains quite expansionary.
—George Schultze, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
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While business executives are now worried about a possible trade war and have slowed their expansionary plans, the U.S. economy is still healthy.
—Robert Pozen, Fortune, 29 July 2019
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The seven-decade-long growth of entitlements and the pandemic response are the product of expansionary forces that operate on Congress regardless of who is in charge.
—John F. Cogan, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
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Turkey was entering its expansionary era, and those with the right connections prospered.
—David Segal, New York Times, 22 July 2017
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However, unlike the expansionary money phase, the contractionary phase won’t be fun.
—Ivan Illan, Forbes, 27 June 2022
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The new framework, which was 1 1/2 years in the making, was seen as reinforcing the Fed’s ultra-expansionary monetary policy.
—Rich Miller, Bloomberg.com, 4 Sep. 2020
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That announcement came despite evidence that the euro area economy has lost some of its expansionary pace.
—David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 22 June 2018
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George Kennan warned more than 70 years ago that Moscow’s expansionary policy was driven more by its history and culture than by Marx ist dogma.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
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Pursuit of this goal was one reason that the Fed maintained an overly expansionary policy, with consequences of which we have only just been reminded.
—Thomas L. Hogan, National Review, 18 Oct. 2022
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Peace is still the best option, and U.S. willingness to compromise on its expansionary ambitions and lower the temperature would make that much more likely.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2022
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Congress just passed expansionary fiscal policy through the tax reform bill.
—Mark Daly, idahostatesman, 18 Jan. 2018
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Stocks have historically risen 85% of the time on a one-year basis during expansionary periods.
—Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021
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Despite those expansionary ambitions, Walgreens brass doesn't expect to compete head-to-head with Amazon.
—Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
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When inflation is increasing, however, then the Fed no longer has as much freedom to implement expansionary monetary policy, and when the Fed contracts its expansionary policies, this can decrease stock prices.
—Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2021
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The city was then under the control of an expansionary Russian empire, as part of the country’s occupation of Manchuria, when faraway Daliniy was designated for development as a potentially lucrative trading port.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
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