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Starting in September, the Fed cut interest rates at three consecutive meetings, opting to address the flagging labor market.—Max Zahn, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2026 More recently, the flagging real estate market has made people skittish.—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026 China's rollout of measures to boost its flagging birth rate remains patchy and inconsistent, a team of researchers has found.—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025 Opportunistic founders looked to jump from one flagging hype cycle to the newer, shinier thing in tech.—Ben Weiss, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flagging
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