as in influx
a flowing or coming in
the inflow of new students every September means that there will always be new blood for student organizations
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Recent Examples of inflow
Today, drought and a lack of water inflows have stripped it of more than 98 percent of its volume.
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Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
But for the United States, which partly relies on huge inflows of foreign capital to finance its gaping budget deficit, this isn’t necessarily reassuring.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
These inflows have been profoundly destabilizing, facilitating the rise of the continent’s isolationist right.
—S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
That record run was fueled by unprecedented ETF inflows.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
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Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
But for the United States, which partly relies on huge inflows of foreign capital to finance its gaping budget deficit, this isn’t necessarily reassuring.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
These inflows have been profoundly destabilizing, facilitating the rise of the continent’s isolationist right.
—S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
That record run was fueled by unprecedented ETF inflows.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflow
influx
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Using imagery, the lab was able to identify that about one-fourth of the locations have been expanded since Russia began its full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022, presumably to meet the influx.—
Mike Brest,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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So while cells in a younger person (that were continuously exposed to estrogen prior to HRT) might benefit from a fresh influx of estrogen, ones that had a break from that estrogen bath might react negatively to it.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Inflow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflow. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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