How to Use deflation in a Sentence

deflation

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  • Economists worry that deflation will bring the country into recession.
  • For me, the deflation starts around the last 24 hours of a trip.
    — Jordan Blok, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The stock did come down as low as $38, but the deflation didn’t stick.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • There’s a mild sense of build, and a yet-milder sense of deflation.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 June 2021
  • But Japan has been close to or in deflation for most of the past two decades.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • The chart shows that durable goods are already in deflation.
    — Robert Barone, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • And satellite radar can keep track of ground swelling and deflation.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
  • But what’s a better cure for deflation than pure hoops and hope in the future?
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
  • The head of the world’s largest retailer just used the D word on an earnings call: deflation.
    — Jeannette Neumann, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • See Clevinger, soak up his words, and there is not an ounce of deflation or regret.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Look at the wild swings back and forth between inflation and deflation back in the day.
    — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Inflation and deflation are easy with the twist-and-push valve.
    — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Much of the eurozone, in fact, went into the deflation zone last month.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Prices in China are plunging, and the risk of deflation is rising.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 10 July 2023
  • The online deflation was led by a 9.3% year-over-year plunge in electronics prices, Adobe said, the area consumers spend the most.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
  • For Draghi, who used up so much of the ECB’s firepower to stave off the threat of deflation, that’s one more reason to be patient.
    — Alessandro Speciale, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • But before that, some only saw the delusion, not the deflation.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The rate declines have not even kept up with the deflation that China has begun to suffer.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The driver drove through the median to avoid tire deflation devices troopers had placed to stop the truck.
    — Mike Cruz, azcentral, 28 Oct. 2019
  • This tying of the pound to gold made the pound more overvalued, lowered the trade balance and ushered in deflation and slow growth.
    — WSJ, 15 Oct. 2018
  • The swing this month is largely coming from goods, which were in deflation last month and swung to positive.
    — Brad McMillan, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Today a big concern is deflation, and that concern tends to keep the yield curve flatter.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
  • But the trend from deflation to inflation appears to have begun over a year ago.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • In his second term, Abe helped Japan's economy, the world's third-largest, claw its way out of a cycle of deflation.
    — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • In that case, the economists fear the US might have tipped into outright deflation.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 27 May 2022
  • That compares with slight deflation in Japan and the eurozone.
    — Aaron Back, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Keep in mind that this is in the context of deflation – prices in China fell 0.8% in January, the steepest decline in 14 years.
    — Nikki Baird, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And with key consumer prices falling again, the prospect of a return to the deflation that ingrained that attitude can’t be ruled out.
    — Toru Fujioka, Bloomberg.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Yes, but: Eagles fans usually find healthier ways to deal with the elation and deflation.
    — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Police attempted a traffic stop and said Sewell sped away, but later lost control of the vehicle when police deployed a tire deflation device.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024

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