as in recessions
a lack of activity or development and especially economic development
After years of economic stagnation, employment numbers began to rise.
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Noun
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This includes both 2000 and 2007, when bubbles bursting coincided with painful recessions.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026 -
The United States is adept enough at handling the labor-market damage caused by recessions.—
Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Players move around, get injured, and go through slumps.—
Mia Sato,
The Verge,
1 Mar. 2026
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Teams go through shooting slumps in college basketball.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In Aidarov’s spiral, bodily imprints from hundreds of thousands of migrant workers layer upon one another, the faint depressions of exhausted sleep compressed into a monument that cannot move.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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Unexpectedly, these nodules were not concentrated near central fractures as predicted, but scattered along ridge walls and depressions, offering new insight on how water and minerals interacted across the Martian terrain.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
27 Feb. 2026
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