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Recent Examples of deflation
In the midst of the Great Depression, the government was trying to combat deflation, increase money supply and regain control over monetary policy by preventing gold hoarding.
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Alex Pron, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Although there is deep sadness and anger over Charlies’ death, now is not the time for deflation.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
China’s falling consumer prices deepen deflation fears New data in China intensified fears of deepening deflation in the world’s second-biggest economy.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That can lead to deflation, or falling prices, that may prompt consumers to put off purchases, hobbling the economy.
—Paul Davidson, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
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Alex Pron, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Although there is deep sadness and anger over Charlies’ death, now is not the time for deflation.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
China’s falling consumer prices deepen deflation fears New data in China intensified fears of deepening deflation in the world’s second-biggest economy.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That can lead to deflation, or falling prices, that may prompt consumers to put off purchases, hobbling the economy.
—Paul Davidson, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deflation
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Hyperscalers such as Microsoft are unlikely to reduce capital expenditure due to minor equity downturns or cryptocurrency volatility.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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Surprisingly, or perhaps not, WBD is shrugging off the downturn, up a hair to near $18, continuing to be buoyed by takeover talk.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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Fed Chair Powell mostly reiterated the case for dropping short-term rates toward neutral while also musing about halting the shrinkage of the Fed balance sheet soon.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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Multiverse’s core business is compressing open-source LLMs with such extreme shrinkage that most of its versions can run on CPUs, or central processing units, of the kind used in smartphones and regular computers, rather than GPUs, or graphics processing units.—
Vivienne Walt,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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Ohtani, though, doesn’t believe pitching has anything to do with his extended slump at the plate.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The American whiskey industry is on the rocks, with anti-tariff backlash hurting exports and exacerbating the strains of a years-long slump in domestic demand.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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After one year, participants in all three groups saw reductions not only in their distress but in levels of hemoglobin A1C (a key indicator of blood glucose; higher levels mean worse control).—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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Rudolph said the tools, which are mainly used to automate session notes, to autogenerate care plans and to interpret lab results, have resulted in a 65 percent reduction in documentation time.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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One study in British Columbia found that sea star wasting disease led to a 311 percent increase in the population of medium-sized sea urchins and a 30 percent decrease in kelp density over two years.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
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The increase in population growth last year drove the neutral rate higher, the decrease in population growth this year is driving it lower, and that means that policy was much looser last year than people thought.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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Maryland has a diminution credit system in which some inmates can earn a reduction in their sentence.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
2 Sep. 2025
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But rather than Xi’s diminution, the recent moves more likely reflect Xi’s continued dominance of the military.—
JONATHAN A. CZIN,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2025
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Boiling water can make pipes soften and sag, or even come apart if the glue melts or the pipes warp.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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An inspector found that on one of the colonnades, for example, porch columns are beginning to separate from the brick; exterior walls have wood rot and water damage; and the floors on the inside are beginning to sag and could collapse.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
5 Sep. 2025
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Whitney Portal will observe sharp deterioration in conditions with extreme danger to hikers and campers unprepared for the winter weather.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Casualties among Gaza’s police force during the two-year conflict have contributed to a deterioration in security, with looting of aid becoming commonplace.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Deflation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deflation. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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