downturn

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Recent Examples of downturn China's economy has slowed since the pandemic, partly due to job losses and a housing market downturn, while exports have continued to grow. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025 Predictions of an imminent downturn in price is being scoffed at by the bitcoin ETF community. Bob Pisani, CNBC, 13 Jan. 2025 Related article Comcast to spin off its cable channels, including MSNBC and CNBC, into separate company Maddow’s weeknight return comes as cable news networks have seen a downturn in viewership, including in prime time. Liam Reilly, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025 Advertisement The debate over the $1 billion project has played out amid a serious downturn in the region’s entertainment industry, with studios shifting film and television productions to Georgia, New Mexico and other out-of-state locations. David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for downturn 
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Noun
  • And Miles Byrd and Nick Boyd, the only players averaging in double figures and accounting for nearly 40% of the offense, continued their dual slumps.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The 49ers experienced a major Super Bowl slump, as the team finished with a 6-11 record after playing in the championship in 2023.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • China narrowly avoided a slip into deflation in December, statistics authorities said last week, with prices rising at their slowest pace in nine months.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune Asia, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Energetic purchases of bonds by the central bank are a standard policy prescription for economies facing deflation: a broad decline in prices.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Overall car sales are expected to drop as autonomous taxis reduce the need for personal ownership of cars, with a decrease in traditional revenues for automotive suppliers like Valeo.
    Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • But even with homicides down 20% last year, officials have struggled to explain the reason for that decrease, or the reason that nonfatal shootings and violence overall continues to be on the rise.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Even accounting for her curls’ shrinkage, her hair only grew about an inch.
    Ariel Wodarcyk, Glamour, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In most cases, shrinkage can be reversed once the drugs are stopped.17 Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT): TRT is commonly used to treat male hypogonadism.
    Matthew Wosnitzer, Verywell Health, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • San Diego’s overall falloff from 2023 to 2024 impacted all players, Shaw included.
    Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Will Lewis, the publisher of The Post, said in a meeting last year that in 2023, The Post lost $77 million and had suffered a falloff in its digital audience since 2020.
    Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The price action went from a clear downtrend phase of lower highs and lower lows to more of a bullish trend with higher highs and higher lows.
    David Keller, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Alaska Air Daily, Weekly, Monthly American Air also reveals weekly and monthly downtrend price reversals.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The diminution of Black Monday underscores the possibility – perhaps likelihood – that more coaching changes are coming down the pike.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Moscow, for its part, has already formed a quasi alliance with Beijing to expedite the diminution of Washington’s influence.
    Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Mar. 2021
Noun
  • The initiative's agenda includes aggressive deregulation, curbs on immigration, challenges to civil-rights protections, and a substantial reduction of the federal workforce, all with the aim of reducing the size and scope of government while reasserting executive authority.
    Nik Popli, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
  • For example, Santander Bank saw a 40% reduction in loan processing time after implementing nCino—making life easier for their team and customers.
    Sal Rehmetullah, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025

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