stagnancy
- a word derived from stagnant.
Example Sentences
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Industrial production helped the economy between July and September, despite trade uncertainty, with fixed capital investment also improving from stagnancy in the second quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
After a period of stagnancy, facing debts incurred by the loss of the expensive plane, the brothers redirected their focus to the land.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023
While last year’s policing overhauls did not decrease fatal shootings, Zimring said the stagnancy was unsurprising.
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2022
Her absence is explained by a leap into a huge, wild change, placing the others' creative stagnancy in bold relief.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2021
To the old Gazetteers, and their readers everywhere, this of Glogau is a very effulgent business; bursting out on them, like sudden Bude-light, in the uncertain stagnancy and expectancy of mankind.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas
