How to Use hyperinflation in a Sentence

hyperinflation

noun
  • This was in a bid to improve access to forex in a time of hyperinflation.
    Farai Shawn Matiashe, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
  • There is no reason to fear hyperinflation, or even anything on the scale of what was witnessed in the 1970s.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The last time Russia saw hyperinflation was in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2022
  • This is due to the way hyperinflation is defined and measured.
    Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • That helped the country emerge from four years of hyperinflation and break a recession.
    Nicolle Yapur, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2022
  • No one is worried about hyperinflation, at least not in the United States.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The release of this new note, stokes fears of hyperinflation reminiscent of the 2008 era.
    Nyasha Chingono, Quartz, 9 July 2021
  • All of this in a country with hyperinflation and a deep economic malaise.
    Rania Abouzeid, National Geographic, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The country is beset by hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine.
    Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
  • But in time the Mongols issued too much paper and sparked a hyperinflation, as did their successors, the Ming.
    Edward Chancellor, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021
  • That’s spooked some Americans who wonder if this is just a blip or a return to the hyperinflation economy of the 1970s.
    Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 28 May 2021
  • Over the next decade, hyperinflation kept on getting worse.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • Food shortages and hyperinflation in Venezuela are pushing thousands of people to leave the country each day in search of a better life.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
  • For decades, gold bugs have hoarded coins in fear that the U.S. government is set to unleash hyperinflation.
    Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Venezuela has been plagued by hyperinflation and widespread shortages of basic goods and gas.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 21 July 2019
  • As if to usher in Menem, a bout of hyperinflation broke out the month he was elected president.
    Francisco Zalles, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
  • As well as hyperinflation, Zimbabwe has been hit by severe drought in parts of the country.
    Nyasha Chingono, CNN, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The once wealthy nation — which used to provide billions of dollars in aid to its allies — is caught in a hyperinflation spiral.
    Antonio Maria Delgado and Mario J. Pentón, miamiherald, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Salaries have been wiped out with hyperinflation and millions have been left hungry, malnourished and scouring through the garbage for food.
    Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 18 May 2017
  • Because of chronic medicine shortages and the hyperinflation in Venezuela in the past eight months, getting medicines is extremely hard.
    Stefano Pozzebon and Susan Scutti, CNN, 11 June 2018
  • Just think of the dollar’s popularity in a country like Venezuela, in the midst of hyperinflation.
    Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 20 June 2019
  • Fears of Weimar-style hyperinflation in some corners proved fertile ground for the pro-gold messages of Paul and others who see salvation in gold.
    Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 3 July 2019
  • Millions live in poverty amid high food prices, low wages and hyperinflation.
    Star Tribune, 12 July 2021
  • Millions live in poverty amid high food prices, low wages, and hyperinflation.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The world had been on the gold standard streaks, cautioned by the hyperinflation that followed World War I after countries freely printed money to pay for the conflict.
    Erik Sherman, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2019
  • And a bubble in asset markets is nothing more than … wait for it … a hyperinflation in those markets.
    Robert Hockett, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Back in the hyperinflation 1970s, unions pushed for ever-higher incomes to keep pace with rising prices, thus fueling the fire more.
    Larry Light, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • More than 1 million people have fled in recent years as hyperinflation and food and medicine shortages.
    Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Yet in dysfunctional economies such as Argentina and Turkey, beset by hyperinflation and a shortage of hard currency, tether is also a lifeline for people.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
  • He is widely credited with rescuing Peru from a painful period of hyperinflation and hunger, and oversaw the destruction of leftist insurgent groups that terrorized Peruvians with car bombs and brutal massacres for more than a decade.
    Mitra Taj, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024

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