How to Use purchasing power in a Sentence

purchasing power

noun

• But people’s pay and purchasing power are still catching up to the levels lost through the price surge.
  — David McHugh, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Hourly wages outpaced price gains in the spring for the first time in two years, giving consumers more purchasing power.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• To restore the purchasing power of wages, prices will have to fall, not just stop increasing.
  — William Dunkelberg, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• Gill said that Gen X being at the peak of their careers leads to higher purchasing power, and can buy homes and other things.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Over the same span, the minimum wage, unchanged since 2007, has lost roughly half its purchasing power.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
• For the rich or middle class in North America and Europe, this means less purchasing power on a global scale.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 16 June 2023
• People’s purchasing power is under pressure with inflation and gas prices and all the rest of it.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
• Money in a safe deposit box will not earn interest, so the purchasing power of your cash will decrease.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 25 June 2023
• Last year, consumer prices jumped at rates unseen since the 1980s, swiftly eroding the purchasing power of each U.S. dollar.
  — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• This comes as inflation has cut into the purchasing power of most households.
  — Catherine Allen, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• The slide has made the import of vital goods far more expensive and sapped the purchasing power of ordinary Iranians.
  — David S. Cloud, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Our goal as investment advisers is to protect and grow the purchasing power of your money.
  — Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 19 May 2024
• In essence, that means minimum-wage workers in those states have seen much of their purchasing power vaporized by inflation over the past 15 years.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
• And even as household purchasing power is dropping, prices are spiking.
  — Javier Alvarez, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2014
• Prices fell last year after mortgage rates more than doubled and suddenly sapped the purchasing power of buyers.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Over the years, inflation reduced the purchasing power of the revenue collected.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2024
• That debt has piled up as credit card rates have jumped and inflation continues to sap households' purchasing power.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2024
• These are countries where people are still growing their purchasing power.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 June 2024
• The protections baby boomers enjoyed — strong unions, healthy pensions, and a minimum wage with strong purchasing power — are gone.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• The effect would be dramatic for city workers — cutting housing costs in half and doubling their purchasing power.
  — Micah Lasher, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
• Firstly, inflation is still high, meaning the purchasing power (or real value) of your cash is guaranteed to go down each year.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The smaller tax refund in 2023 proved to be a double whammy for many Americans, who were at the same time reeling from high inflation that eroded their purchasing power.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
• While earnings growth is now outpacing inflation, the improved purchasing power only amounts to a few cents.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 July 2023
• Many Americans have been relying on credit cards to boost their purchasing power in recent years.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 May 2024
• Bailey Schulz: So the good news for a lot of Americans is that wage growth continues to outpace inflation, which just means that Americans get more purchasing power.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• The purchasing power of ‘kidults’ Adults are increasingly shelling out for relics of their youth and for items, ranging from flip phones to film cameras to Tamagotchis, that evoke a late 20th-century or turn-of-the century nostalgia.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
• Inflation, on the other hand, can make the economy too hot: Wages grow but so do prices, leaving consumers facing sticker shock and eroding their purchasing power.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Instead, the key lies in enhancing the wages and productivity of our workforce, enabling them to enjoy a higher quality of life and to have greater purchasing power.
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 July 2024
• So, if employers continue to churn out jobs, and wages continue to grow as inflation slows, then consumers will still have healthy purchasing power.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 27 July 2023
• Cost-of-living adjustments matter a great deal A cost-of-living increase exists as part of the Social Security system to make sure that people receiving benefits don't lose their purchasing power over time due to inflation.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024