Example Sentences

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“In the near term, unemployment will rise, business activity will falter and headlines will continue to be scary,” Buffett wrote then in a New York Times opinion column.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Whether the artificial-intelligence boom will falter this year is one of the top questions for investors.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

Experts said sales will falter without the credit, which ended Sept. 30.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

About 1 billion years from now, according to the authors’ scenario, CO2 levels will fall so low that photosynthesis will falter.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 17, 2023

I show no hesitation, because if I do, my men will falter.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir