How to Use animal spirits in a Sentence

animal spirits

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  • The central bank wants to dampen Wall Street’s animal spirits and crimp demand for goods and services so inflation returns to a more manageable level and stays there.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • But the animal spirits were up in markets and that message was ignored.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Bloomberg.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The lighter touch has unleashed bankers’ animal spirits.
    — Michelle F. Davis, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • Ma explains that the dance is about communing with ancient animal spirits.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The family needs money, the last of the line dies, or the old archduke’s armor gives the Gen X heir night sweats — such occasions sharpen the animal spirits, and off to Maastricht the art goes.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
  • With Coinbase’s debut slated for Wednesday, the animal spirits are too busy sinking in their teeth to care.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • There is no greater enemy to animal spirits than ESG, yet the appetite for it appears to be insatiable.
    — Andy Martin, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Japan, a pioneer with these moves, added the idea of using central-bank money to prop up the stock market, hoping to revive the animal spirits of investors.
    — Megumi Fujikawa, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The economy contracted, not just for lack of money or for animal spirits of investors, but for lack of credit.
    — John H. Cochrane, National Review, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Officials blamed a lack of private-sector animal spirits for the bidding no-show.
    — The Economist, 9 June 2018
  • The state, therefore, must steer investment growth, until the private sector’s animal spirits are back.
    — R Nagaraj, Quartz India, 10 Sep. 2019
  • More people sitting around watching Netflix may help rekindle some animal spirits in the stock market.
    — Peter Eavis, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
  • Those pictures helped destroy the ancient belief that animal spirits pumped through hollow chambers inside the brain.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2012
  • Housing's animal spirits are roaring at the start of 2022, and next New Year's Eve will ring in another year that's a little less intoxicating, but still a winner.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Those surging animal spirits have a big impact on the actual closing prices, since confidence that the market will stay great leads to more and more buying that spawns ever-higher prices.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 July 2022
  • The government then tried to revive animal spirits by sharply cutting corporate-tax rates.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
  • If credible, that promise should buck up animal spirits, encourage spending, and drag the economy back to health.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Postcrisis Shadow The shock of the financial crisis had a lingering impact on animal spirits.
    — Tom Fairless, WSJ, 7 May 2018
  • René Descartes believed that animal spirits flowed from the brain through hollow nerves and inflated the muscles, just as hydraulic fluid traveled through machines in the royal gardens at Saint-Germain.
    — Benjamin Ehrlich, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Growth and animal spirits have revived with Mr. Trump’s policy mix of tax reform and deregulation.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
  • But investors shouldn’t expect healthy animal spirits roaming back into the Indian IPO market just yet.
    — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 3 June 2022
  • Controlling the rate simply becomes a calming action to quiet the market’s animal spirits.
    — Donald Devine, National Review, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Assurances that protectionism is no longer a core policy could unleash animal spirits that went dormant even before the virus hit.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2020
  • So perhaps companies should avoid getting too carried away by animal spirits.
    — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The animal spirits are returning to the leveraged-buyout business, and that’s helping fuel a historic rise in merger activity.
    — Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • Thaler did more than perhaps any other economists to devise a vocabulary for these animal spirits.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Another sign that animal spirits are making a comeback?
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Simply put, corporate welfare on such a massive scale deadened Japan’s animal spirits.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Higher taxes and tougher regulation are a combination more likely to rein in rather than unleash animal spirits.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Feb. 2021
  • This is probably thanks, in part, to the stiffening effect of Republican policy on animal spirits.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018

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