How to Use recession in a Sentence

recession

noun
  • Is the risk of recession completely off the table, from your point of view?
    CBS News, 9 July 2023
  • At the same time, the Fed is trying to avoid slowing the economy so much as to cause a deep recession.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The state now is trying to correct what went wrong, but the acid test will be how EDD performs when the next recession strikes.
    Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The nation was still emerging from a recession that had marred his first two years in office.
    Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • And half of respondents believe a recession in the U.S. is possible over the next two to three years.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Simons, like many of his peers, has been forced to revise the timing of his recession forecast in 2023.
    Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Hatfield has argued for more than a year that the economy will avoid a recession.
    Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Just after Valentine’s Day, Britain was met with the grim news that its economy had slid into a recession at the end of last year.
    Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But one pandemic and a start-up recession later, the debate might be moot.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The brisk run has been fueled by a rush for technology and growth stocks in recent days, amid ebbing fears about a recession.
    Esha Dey, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
  • As a consequence, high inflation and the looming threat of a recession have dealt a blow to state coffers.
    Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
  • The forecasts suggest the Fed expects the economy to slow to a more sustainable pace in the years ahead while avoiding a recession.
    David Harrison, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But companies have been backpedaling in the past year amid recession fears, with big firms paring back DEI roles.
    Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • When the 2008 recession hit, many grants the nonprofit relied on dried up, so the institute opened the preschool and day care to help fund its other programs.
    Austindedios, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
  • As some of the world’s biggest economies stumble into recession, the United States keeps chugging along.
    Stan Choe, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • That has increased the chances that inflation could cool without a painful recession.
    Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The agency has urged Congress to take swift action out of a concern that a default could tip the country into a recession.
    Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • Spot gold prices reached a record high of more than $2,100 an ounce in early December, as fears of a recession persisted.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • That doesn’t look at all like the recession that had been widely anticipated a year ago.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The next recession is always on its way The pessimists are right in one way: There will be another recession.
    Sarita A. Mohanty, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Europe and Britain are on the verge of recession, and China — the world’s second-largest economy — is on slippery footing.
    Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Barring a deep and painful recession, prices aren’t going to fall to their pre-pandemic levels.
    Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023
  • There’s no crystal ball showing a recession is imminent in the U.S.
    Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The economy is in recession and 40% of the population lives below the poverty line.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
  • If there is a recession or any concern about the Treasury paying back investors on time, there will be less confidence to go around.
    Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 17 May 2023
  • Most economists expect the labor market will slow this year, but predict the U.S. will avoid a recession.
    CBS News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • At the same time, central bankers want to avoid plunging the economy into a recession that is more painful than necessary.
    Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • That helps reduce inflation but also risks a recession if the slowdown goes too far.
    Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • On the other hand, some economists and business leaders say that raising rates too high may increase the risk that the U.S. could plunge into a recession.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 26 July 2023
  • Some investors will see the latest bold move as a warning that the market might get slammed in the coming months as fears of a recession continue to percolate.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2023

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