deindustrialization
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There, he inherited a feel-good story: Britain’s second-largest city was enjoying a turnaround after years of deindustrialization thanks to a more active local government and rush of private investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 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
And the early stages of American deindustrialization were already underway: Jobs were starting to vanish.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
The impact of globalization and deindustrialization was felt most strongly in black inner-city communities.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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