How to Use economist in a Sentence

economist

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  • Economists are predicting rapid inflation.
  • But that may not be the case this time, economists said.
    — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Such risks, some economists say, are a reason for the Fed to be cautious.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • For some, like Micah, the economist, 78º during the day is just fine.
    — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 3 July 2024
  • The phrase came from a 2022 paper by a group of economists and referred to a risk of the post-pandemic era.
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Wage growth slowed further last month, the economists said.
    — Amara Omeokwe, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • My economist father was on the other side of the country, or in his apartment across town, or in the sky.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • For now, economists say, the best that consumers can hope for is that prices stop going up so fast.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But there are economists that say the economy did not grow that fast.
    — Taylor Haney, NPR, 15 June 2024
  • But the year-on-year measure was below the 5% that economists predicted in a poll by Reuters.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 10 May 2023
  • The April jobs report, which beat economists’ forecasts, showed the 28th straight month of solid job growth.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The economist shared details about one of their trips to Orange Hill, Jamaica, in 1970.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
  • Bloomberg surveyed economists from around the world to gather views on those three debates.
    — Jana Randow, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The outcomes of not raising the debt ceiling are in less dispute, economists say.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • The illnesses were so disruptive that the labor economist quit her full-time job at the Rand Corp., a think tank.
    — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • And the current crisis will cause banks to pull back on lending but not nearly as much as in 2008, economists say.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Garber is an economist and physician who has served as provost for 12 years.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But a few thought the Fed would hit pause, including economists at Goldman Sachs.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • For now, most economists agree the US economy will likely be spared a downturn this year.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The economist on Thursday again alluded to the idea of trying to keep U.S. Steel in domestic hands.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 29 Mar. 2024
  • For months, employers have churned out jobs at a pace that has baffled economists.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • The Nobel Prize-winning economist has been dead for nearly two decades.
    — William McGurn 3, wsj.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Between the lines: The week started with a warning from the IMF's chief economist about the type of shocks that policymakers might have to endure in the years to come.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
  • That points to the question: Why do economists get these things so consistently wrong?
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Some economists are skeptical about quite how bad the jobless rate is.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 July 2024
  • Among the hats Stiglitz wears is one as chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Tap the wisdom of a behavioral economist for the gifting season.
    — Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The surprising strength of the recovery in 2023 has led some economists to question how their forecasts were so wrong.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But certain elements of the late 19th century have carried over to the present day, and some economists have been raising alarm bells about what this could mean going forward.
    — Justin Klawans, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Greg Daco, chief economist at the consulting firm Ernst & Young, noted in an interview that tax cuts rarely pay for themselves.
    — Peter Green, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024

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