Recent Examples on the WebThe eurozone has stagnated for the past five quarters as high prices and interest rates have taken their toll, while the United States has expanded unexpectedly strongly.—Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024 The $95 billion supplemental funding package that passed the Senate in February has stagnated for months in the House as Johnson has debated a path forward.—Jaala Brown, Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2024 While Indiana has made progress in increasing the state's higher education enrollment this year, state officials hope the letter reverses the state's stagnating college-going rate, or students who head to college directly after high school.—Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2024 Bosa didn’t say exactly that the change was due to stagnating rents, just that condos were a better return on investment.—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024 The Japanese economy has tended to stagnate in recent years, with slow wage increases as well as deflation, or the continuous sliding down of prices, rather than the inflation affecting some parts of the world.—Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024 In success, some restaurants freeze, stagnating in their winning formula.—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024 Residents have wanted new developments to attract more people, but some feel the efforts have stagnated.—Archer Guanco, Daniel Schoenherr, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2024 While consumer prices largely stagnated last year, Lardy said core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.7%.—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Latin stagnatus, past participle of stagnare, from stagnum body of standing water
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