How to Use policymaker in a Sentence
policymaker
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Yet the idea is holy writ at the Fed and in the minds of most policymakers.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
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And policymakers around the world look likely to hold rates.
—Gabrielle Ng, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026
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The past year has seen quite a few policymakers push their plans to protect kids online.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 19 June 2024
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And what will be not just good for the companies, but good for the policymakers in this space.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
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For a while, policymakers hoped those were bumps in the road, not a more worrisome trend.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
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The rapid rise has startled investors and put policymakers in a tough spot.
—Joe Rennison, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
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That gives policymakers some time to work out exactly how these rules will be enforced.
—Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2023
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Credit card fees This is not the first time policymakers have weighed in on credit card fees.
—CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
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If price gains don’t soften in response, policymakers could hike again before the end of the year.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
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Out-of-control inflation would put policymakers in a bit of a rough spot.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 10 July 2023
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Many policymakers and safe water experts think that means the laws are too lenient.
—Pien Huang, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
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That could lead to an election-year scenario that policymakers likely want to avoid.
—John Tozzi Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 6 Mar. 2024
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The détente announced this week may help make the case for policymakers to hold rates steady, many economists think.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 15 June 2026
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The only question is whether policymakers will catch up—or hold students back.
—Jeanne Allen, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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This week, policymakers hiked the benchmark rate to a 31-year high of 1%.
—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
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But for all that rhetoric, policymakers don’t seem to feel the urgency of a major weakness at home.
—Dan Romito, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026
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In a world of finite resources, policymakers must come to terms with painful tradeoffs between these twin goals.
—Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2024
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In the meantime, what should policymakers do?
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
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Do too little, and inflation could pick back up — forcing policymakers to clamp back down.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 19 July 2023
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Now, one of the country’s biggest policymakers is fed up with its sickly image.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 21 Mar. 2024
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For decades, policymakers have searched for ways to make physicians more accountable for outcomes and costs.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
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At what point should policymakers conclude that the program’s core objective has been achieved?
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026
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The big problem now, according to many policymakers in Asia and beyond, is that there may not be enough of us.
—Daniel Moss, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026
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For policymakers, the crisis caused by the Iran war poses a dilemma.
—Fabiano Maisonnave, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
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Even as banks breezed through, the stress tests are still the subject of intense debate among economists and policymakers.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 29 June 2024
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Early this year many Fed policymakers were worried the job market was stalling and leaned toward rate cuts.
—Arkansas Online, 8 May 2026
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For decades, William Darity has done the math that most policymakers won’t touch.
—Ali Jackson-Jolley, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
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Some policymakers argue that prices will fall as these therapies scale, but this assumes a cost structure that does not apply.
—William V. Padula, STAT, 8 June 2026
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It’s widely expected that the Fed will hold rates steady when policymakers meet in March.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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Such plans, if true, are very much in keeping with the trend among policymakers in Europe to pursue such ‘offshoring’ schemes.
—Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
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