How to Use stagnation in a Sentence

stagnation

noun

• That seems to break through that stagnation, that grip on your throat.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
• To sign the dotted line in an era of stagnation for the sport’s top fighters.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• The key is to keep moving forward and avoid stagnation.
  — Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
• Talks in search of a cease-fire and hostage release have ground into stagnation.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2024
• The country has grappled with stagnation for over a decade.
  — David Feliba, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• The shift for Peck comes as some people close to the campaign blame her for the campaign's current struggles and stagnation in the polls.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Relief was short-lived for Bay Area renters: After nearly a year of stagnation, rents are back on the rise.
  — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
• Keeping the lagoon open to the ocean prevents stagnation and flooding, which can occur when a sand berm builds up at the beach.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2024
• This trend has often been referred to as wage stagnation.
  — Juhohn Lee, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
• That decades-long stagnation has left judges struggling to keep up, court officials say.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
• Pittman and guard Brady Latham seemed at a loss to explain what is causing the offensive stagnation.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2023
• Coaches will face questions about schematic changes designed to ward off the stagnation that set in over the second half of last season.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2022
• That stagnation, Thiel claimed in his lecture at Yale, was linked to the credentialist rat race Vance and his classmates were engaged in.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
• Yet this period of stagnation in the fleet has coincided with a rise in car sales worldwide.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2023
• The upgrades come after two years of stagnation, with the U.K. falling into a shallow recession in the second half of 2023.
  — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 16 July 2024
• Reorganizing the deckchairs in the city of London will not save the London Stock Market from stagnation.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• But learning how to delegate is often the key to moving from stagnation to real growth.
  — Q Hamirani, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
• The stock of great companies will generally go up over the long run, but there can be bumps and occasional stagnation along the way.
  — Dallas News, 21 June 2020
• Stagflation is a term that refers to high inflation that happens at the same time as stagnation of growth or outright recession.
  — Nouriel Roubini, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• Amid clues that the economy may be on a course for more sustained growth after years of stagnation, the country’s central bank raised interest rates for the first time since 2007.
  — Kiuko Notoya, New York Times, 7 May 2024
• The key to how stagflation works is found in the three economic forces that make it up: stagnation, high inflation, and high unemployment.
  — Jim Probasco, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
• Right now, America wage growth and stagnation has been a plaguing issue.
  — Britney Porter, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• His work focuses on the West Coast, real estate and wage stagnation among U.S. workers.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Stubbornly high inflation, years of wage stagnation and the sudden and steep rise in energy prices have left millions of Brits on the brink of poverty.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2 May 2023
• This stagnation, combined with high tariffs, could mean Americans cannot access the best EVs.
  — Chris Bataille, Fortune, 23 May 2024
• Some even saw in him a chance for political change after a long period of stagnation.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• As wage stagnation and high inflation set in, the national mood shifted.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, across the Atlantic in the U.K. the number of 18-year olds applying to go to university has been rising sharply in the last two years, following 5 years of stagnation.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• Since the passage of Title IX in 1972, there have been steady declines and stagnations in the proportions of women head coaches across collegiate sport.
  — Lindsey Darvin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Overall the figures are positive–revenues are up 5%, profits up 8% and employment grew 3%, painting a picture of a continent far from stagnation, for now.
  — Byalex Wood Morton, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024