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market forces

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plural noun

  1. the effect of supply and demand on trading within a free market

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Attempts to make the industry more sustainable must consider market forces, she said, and seafood companies have to respond to “what people actually want to buy and eat.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

“The program leverages housing market forces, entrepreneurial innovation and private accountability to increase housing supply,” former HUD Secretary Ben Carson told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2025.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Fortunately, there’s no need to predict which market forces will prevail.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Jankovec urged the EU to intervene, writing that "relying on market forces and adaptation alone is not an option".

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton’s book, American Apartheid, documents how racially segregated ghettos were deliberately created by federal policy, not impersonal market forces or private housing choices.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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