How to Use expansionary in a Sentence

expansionary

adjective

• Holtz-Eakin thinks that expansionary policy isn’t the way to fix it.
  — Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 27 May 2017
• For more than a year the Fed has been pursuing an expansionary policy for the ages.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 May 2021
• What’s your take on the prospect of, say, tax reform, expansionary policy this year?
  — WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• Himelsein is known for his mean expansionary approach to the markets.
  — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• But the impact of expansionary fiscal policy peaked in the second quarter of this year.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Some market participants have long thought that the US economy is at the end of its expansionary cycle.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020
• 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
• In the longer term, the country still faces the confluence of expansionary fiscal and monetary policy.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 June 2021
• The purpose is to contain the damage, not to be aggressively expansionary.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 17 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The government switched to expansionary measures such as the easing on foreign-currency loans.
  — David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
• The surge in the money supply as a result of expansionary monetary policy from the Fed and a boatload of government spending led to 500 basis points of interest-rate hikes to try to sop it up.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 July 2023
• Pricing should get better, even as the economic data is still expansionary.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• 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
• In fact, fiscal policy in the U.S. remains quite expansionary.
  — George Schultze, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Turkey was entering its expansionary era, and those with the right connections prospered.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 22 July 2017
• However, unlike the expansionary money phase, the contractionary phase won’t be fun.
  — Ivan Illan, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• 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
• That announcement came despite evidence that the euro area economy has lost some of its expansionary pace.
  — David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 22 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Congress just passed expansionary fiscal policy through the tax reform bill.
  — Mark Daly, idahostatesman, 18 Jan. 2018
• Stocks have historically risen 85% of the time on a one-year basis during expansionary periods.
  — Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021
• Russia’s leader has tried to keep the daily lives of Russians insulated from the worst impacts of his expansionary campaign in order to minimize risks to political stability.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
• This period marked a golden era of growth for Chinese tech, supported by expansionary supportive government policies.
  — Gurufocus, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024