ultralow

adjective

ul·​tra·​low ˌəl-trə-ˈlō How to pronounce ultralow (audio)
: extremely or extraordinarily low
ultralow interest rates
vehicles with ultralow emissions
Communicating with subs thousands of miles away, under thousands of feet of ocean, requires ultralow frequencies.Noah Shachtman

Examples of ultralow in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Millions of businesses and consumers had taken advantage of ultralow interest rates in the years before the Fed hiked to lock in low-cost credit. David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 15 June 2024 Republicans have argued the explosion of stimulus spending during the pandemic and ultralow interest rates supercharged price growth. Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 June 2024 Although many of the immediate drivers of the extraordinary rise in prices in 2021 and 2022 will eventually dissipate, the era of perpetual ultralow inflation will not come back anytime soon. Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2022 Japan’s central bank kept its ultralow interest rates while most of its peers have been raising rates aggressively. Jacky Wong, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023 What is new is the sudden burst of inflation and the end of ultralow interest rates. New York Times, 20 July 2022 More long term ultralow interest rate government bonds would mean more Silicon Valley Bank type crises as the value of those bonds imploded due to rising rates. Jack Salmon, National Review, 7 Dec. 2023 That eliminates the need to freeze the deuterium and tritium at ultralow temperatures. Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023 For more than a decade, ultralow interest rates let British homeowners hop carefree from one low rate to another. Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ultralow was in 1849

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“Ultralow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ultralow. Accessed 30 Jun. 2024.

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