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Example sentences for: stagnation

How can you use “stagnation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A leader in Britain's Observer took an unusual position, claiming that the carelessly erected buildings of the 1980s, which have been blamed for the quake's massive death toll, represent Turkey's "attempt to escape from stagnation and backwardness by letting private enterprise rip."
Japan's economy over the 1990s demonstrated that high saving can coincide with economic stagnation.
I remember the pain exacted by Thatcherism in its early years, when half a century of disastrous socialist economics had wrought another mess of poverty, stagnation, and resentment.
But some combination of stock-price stagnation or decline and general price inflation will deny boomers the value they think they're accumulating.
"[A]n east Asia of toppling currencies and bank insolvency; rising unemployment in Latin America's largest economy [Brazil] and falling real wages throughout the region; stagnation and unemployment in Europe; a rapidly approaching limit to the capacity of US consumers to take on more debt.