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The company’s annual revenue has stagnated since 2021, while its shares have fallen around 60% in that time.—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 18 July 2025 The Federal Reserve System has noticed that, for the last 30 or 40 years, economic mobility is stagnating in the United States.—Max Klaver
july 17, Miami Herald, 17 July 2025 Meanwhile, teams wait for direction, priorities blur, and long-term goals stagnate under the weight of daily noise.—John Rex, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025 That peak came after Target's sales rose more than $15 billion in the fiscal year following the start of the Covid pandemic, but its annual revenue has stagnated for the past four years.—Melissa Repko, CNBC, 15 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for stagnate
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Etymology
Latin stagnatus, past participle of stagnare, from stagnum body of standing water
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