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Example sentences for: stagnation

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Just as Seattle's renaissance is fueled by an influx of aggressive capitalists, its previous stagnation was caused by the sloth and poor economic policies of its other tenants: Indians, Scandinavians, and hippies.
The Netherlands suffered economic stagnation during the late 1920s and 1930s, as did most other developed countries.
Crete’s years spent under the Turks (1669–1898) constituted a period of cultural and economic stagnation.
Japan's economy over the 1990s demonstrated that high saving can coincide with economic stagnation.
How could a wealthy, productive, sophisticated country have gone from enviable growth in the 1980s to stagnation in the '90s, and now be slipping into a downward spiral of recession and deflation?