How to Use hyperinflation in a Sentence

hyperinflation

noun

• This was in a bid to improve access to forex in a time of hyperinflation.
  — Farai Shawn Matiashe, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
• There is no reason to fear hyperinflation, or even anything on the scale of what was witnessed in the 1970s.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
• The last time Russia saw hyperinflation was in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2022
• This is due to the way hyperinflation is defined and measured.
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• That helped the country emerge from four years of hyperinflation and break a recession.
  — Nicolle Yapur, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2022
• No one is worried about hyperinflation, at least not in the United States.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
• The release of this new note, stokes fears of hyperinflation reminiscent of the 2008 era.
  — Nyasha Chingono, Quartz, 9 July 2021
• All of this in a country with hyperinflation and a deep economic malaise.
  — Rania Abouzeid, National Geographic, 26 Aug. 2020
• The country is beset by hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine.
  — Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• But in time the Mongols issued too much paper and sparked a hyperinflation, as did their successors, the Ming.
  — Edward Chancellor, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021
• That’s spooked some Americans who wonder if this is just a blip or a return to the hyperinflation economy of the 1970s.
  — Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 28 May 2021
• Over the next decade, hyperinflation kept on getting worse.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• Food shortages and hyperinflation in Venezuela are pushing thousands of people to leave the country each day in search of a better life.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
• For decades, gold bugs have hoarded coins in fear that the U.S. government is set to unleash hyperinflation.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
• Venezuela has been plagued by hyperinflation and widespread shortages of basic goods and gas.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 21 July 2019
• As if to usher in Menem, a bout of hyperinflation broke out the month he was elected president.
  — Francisco Zalles, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
• As well as hyperinflation, Zimbabwe has been hit by severe drought in parts of the country.
  — Nyasha Chingono, CNN, 31 Dec. 2019
• The once wealthy nation — which used to provide billions of dollars in aid to its allies — is caught in a hyperinflation spiral.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado and Mario J. Pentón, miamiherald, 6 Feb. 2018
• Because of chronic medicine shortages and the hyperinflation in Venezuela in the past eight months, getting medicines is extremely hard.
  — Stefano Pozzebon and Susan Scutti, CNN, 11 June 2018
• Just think of the dollar’s popularity in a country like Venezuela, in the midst of hyperinflation.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 20 June 2019
• Fears of Weimar-style hyperinflation in some corners proved fertile ground for the pro-gold messages of Paul and others who see salvation in gold.
  — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 3 July 2019
• Millions live in poverty amid high food prices, low wages and hyperinflation.
  — Star Tribune, 12 July 2021
• Millions live in poverty amid high food prices, low wages, and hyperinflation.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2021
• The world had been on the gold standard streaks, cautioned by the hyperinflation that followed World War I after countries freely printed money to pay for the conflict.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2019
• And a bubble in asset markets is nothing more than … wait for it … a hyperinflation in those markets.
  — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
• Back in the hyperinflation 1970s, unions pushed for ever-higher incomes to keep pace with rising prices, thus fueling the fire more.
  — Larry Light, Forbes, 15 May 2021
• More than 1 million people have fled in recent years as hyperinflation and food and medicine shortages.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
• Debit cards are a common form of payment in Venezuela, where cash is scarce and hyperinflation hit several years ago.
  — Jorge Rueda, The Seattle Times, 26 Mar. 2019
• Coke’s overall prices were up 9% compared with the year-ago period, but about half of that came from hyperinflation in certain markets, like Argentina.
  — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 23 July 2024
• Withholding or slowing the transfer of funds heightens the danger that hyperinflation in Ukraine could ignite.
  — Melinda Haring, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024