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Instead of stagnating with a single creator off the floor, Denver can maintain its rhythm by letting Johnson handle in small bursts.—Joel Rush, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 In a time when many large urban districts are watching test scores stagnate or decline, Newark is seeing math scores rise.—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 Daniel Winarta, a representative for the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta), said much of the discontent centered around the worsening economic hardships for ordinary Indonesians, as wages stagnate and living costs rise.—Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025 Water gardens are fashionable but become major mosquito producers if allowed to stagnate.—John Tufts, IndyStar, 29 Aug. 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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