How to Use slowdown in a Sentence
slowdown
noun- The business had a slowdown after the holidays.
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But that slowdown in sales hasn't stopped home prices from climbing.
— Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022 -
And now the slowdown in service that just hasn’t been addressed.
— BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2022 -
Despite an overall slowdown this year, the job market has proven resilient.
— Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024 -
That slowdown could reduce pressure on employers to raise prices to offset their higher labor costs.
— Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2023 -
Supply chain bottlenecks and fears that a global economic slowdown would crimp demand also dragged down its stock.
— Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023 -
Other tech companies have also been trimming jobs amid concerns about an economic slowdown.
— Time, 19 Jan. 2023 -
The government response to a significant, massive slowdown in the economy was to print more money.
— Jim Probasco, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022 -
Even Germany, the long-standing economic leader of the region, has struggled with the economic slowdown.
— Mike Ettling, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 -
Economists have been surprised by recent strength in the labor market, as the Federal Reserve tries to engineer a slowdown and tame inflation.
— Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023 -
That slowdown hasn’t meant much in the rental market, though.
— Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023 -
Surging rates have been the main cause of the sharp slowdown in the housing market.
— Ben Eisen, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023 -
The performance marked a slowdown from healthy GDP gains of 3.2% in the third quarter and 2.6% the final three months of the year.
— Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023 -
One reason for the fundraising slowdown was the lack of mergers last year.
— Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024 -
Conventional chips, Samsung's bread and butter, are also facing demand issues with a slowdown in the smartphone and PC market.
— Emily Dreibelbis Forlini, PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024 -
At least the Times and Reuters aren’t affected by the current slowdown.
— Simon Hurtz, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023 -
The luxury slowdown has hurt Kering in the past few months.
— Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Apr. 2024 -
The prices increases last month marked a slowdown from the 3.3% rate recorded in May.
— Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 July 2024 -
The slowdown did not originate with the work stoppages of 2023.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024 -
Beyond the layoffs, Best Buy has been pulling back across the board in response to sales slowdowns.
— Wes Davis, The Verge, 11 June 2024 -
The trend continues a slowdown that has been a couple years in the making.
— Melvin Backman, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2024 -
The slowdown would smooth out the city’s annual pension payments over the next two decades.
— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023 -
In recent months, the economy has shown signs of a slowdown.
— Max Zahn, ABC News, 15 May 2024 -
The data marked a slowdown from 2.6% growth in the previous quarter.
— Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 May 2023 -
More drivers will also need to switch to EVs and reverse the recent slowdown in sales.
— Josh Boak, Fortune, 26 May 2024 -
At the end of 2023, the economy appeared to be headed for a benign slowdown.
— Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024 -
Biotech execs worry this could lead to a slowdown in new medicines within the next few years if things don’t turn around soon.
— Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 22 Nov. 2023 -
The slowdown has not so far improved U.S. adults' feelings about the economy.
— Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Despite the slowdown in monthly growth, the size of Texas’ labor force and the number of people employed in the state still broke records last month, the TWC said.
— Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023 -
After the Fourth holidays are over, don’t expect much of a slowdown the rest of July.
— Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
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