Examples of stagnate in a Sentence
Alex Tabet, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
The country’s economy has stagnated this year, registering flat growth during 2023.
—Byryan Hogg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
According to the Federal Reserve, the real wages of black and Hispanic respondents in the survey stagnated.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2023
Cheaper goods helped households cope with stagnating incomes while padding corporate coffers.
—Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
The salary cap has stagnated since COVID-19 struck the gate-dependent NHL, rising only $2 million from 2019-20 to $83.5 million this season.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
There is the increasing possibility that the Chinese economy may stagnate, as growth stalls.
—Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
Wildfires have been increasing in size, frequency and intensity in recent years -- at the same time that progress in air quality improvement has stagnated across much of the U.S., with some regions reporting rising levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the study found.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
As the Axios Markets newsletter pointed out, economists have been surprised after years and years of stagnating productivity, including two straight quarters of decline in 2022, but Starbucks’ blowout quarter is an early sign that this won’t be business as usual.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Latin stagnatus, past participle of stagnare, from stagnum body of standing water
1661, in the meaning defined above
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“Stagnate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stagnate. Accessed 6 Dec. 2023.
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