How to Use pullback in a Sentence

pullback

noun
  • But the pullback in core price increases could prompt the Fed to hold rates steady for the rest of the year.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • The pullback comes after the stock was up 29% year to date as of Monday.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 May 2024
  • The pullback marks the first monthly decline since March.
    WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Cities that saw the fastest growth in rents in 2021 are now witnessing the largest pullback.
    Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Short-term cycles suggest a pullback in the share price.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Consumer shock at the gas pump may have contributed to the pullback.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
  • That marks a sharp pullback from the recent peak of nearly $140 a barrel.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The pullback was the indexes’ first lower close in five days.
    Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • So maybe the biggest one is the pullback of the multi-stage hedge funds that got into VC over the last couple years.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2022
  • And their yields are especially high right now, again thanks to the pullback.
    Michael Foster, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • In those small towns to Kyiv’s north and east, the Russian pullback was most visible.
    Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
  • But a pullback in hiring has fanned fears that that medicine is now proving worse than the disease.
    Steve Kopack, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • For now, pump prices, which move with a lag to oil, continue to dip in response to the recent pullback in oil prices.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Bou evened it off a Sebastian Lletget pullback in the 18th minute.
    Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
  • Even if that ends up not being the case, the bond market is telling us that a pullback may be imminent.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • What’s driving the pullback among some consumer brands?
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • The pullback was entirely due to a decline in the costs of goods, though services prices only edged up.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • At least in terms of titles now ready to hit the market, there’s little sign as yet of platform pullback in Spain.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • And now, due to the recent pullback, these same stocks have pulled back a little, giving us a nice entry point.
    Michael Foster, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
  • That was worse than a 0.11% year-over-year pullback in April, which was the first month in which home prices had fallen by this measure in more than six years.
    Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • More:Mexico may see the biggest gains in pullback from Asia.
    Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
  • Uptrends and pullbacks in the production of goods have less impact now.
    Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The pullback in oil prices weighed on energy sector stocks.
    Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The latest pullback for stocks came as Treasury yields rose broadly.
    Alex Veiga, ajc, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The pullback is the clearest signal of the turbulence facing the cannabis industry.
    Nicholas Florko, STAT, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Long-term Treasury yields jumped after a brief pullback.
    Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That news pushed stocks higher, only to have those gains wiped out by Thursday’s pullback.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 5 May 2022
  • The wage-growth pullback should help ease any concerns of a wage-price spiral, some economists say.
    Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • In addition, oil prices, which had surged early in the week due to Middle East tensions, saw a welcome pullback by the weekend.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Devine says that when the Fed started increasing interest rates in March of 2022, there was a pullback in demand because higher interest rates are often followed by recessions.
    Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 10 Oct. 2024

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