deindustrialization
Britishnoun
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That felt like a taunt as deindustrialization bled the city out.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Barron’s: In Road to Freedom, you wrote that you saw deindustrialization in the 1990s as dangerous for the economy.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
This partly explains, Cembalest writes, the deindustrialization that has afflicted its economy so debilitatingly in the last few years.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
Emissions continued declining due to green electricity and deindustrialization, but the rate didn’t change much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
This was not due to a major change in black values, behavior, or culture; this dramatic shift was the result of deindustrialization, globalization, and technological advancement.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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