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  • verb Present participle of stagnate.

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Examples

  • The company also hopes to revive what it describes as the stagnating carbonates market with one of its own in-house "sparkling premium" product concepts after a survey identified a high level of consumer acceptance for premium carbonates.

    FoodNavigator RSS 2008

  • But the evidence suggests that the main reason our rate of degree-attainment has been stagnating is that too few people who start college end up finishing college.

    Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals 2009

  • Liberal commentators frequently cite declining union memberships as a contributing factor, even driving factor, in stagnating wages (i tend to think it is the rapid increase of per-capita health care costs and skills based technological changes, but anyways).

    Archive 2008-02-01 xtra 2008

  • Earth was stagnating from a lack of resources, from corrupt governments that stayed in power by keeping their people in ignorance and poverty, and by the established power structures that stifled the creative technologies that could solve the planet's problems.

    Sci-Fi Book Releases for August (UK) Mark 2008

  • Liberal commentators frequently cite declining union memberships as a contributing factor, even driving factor, in stagnating wages (i tend to think it is the rapid increase of per-capita health care costs and skills based technological changes, but anyways).

    Democrats and Unions xtra 2008

  • Sellers offered extra incentives to buy in stagnating home market.

    The FREAK-est Links - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Sellers offered extra incentives to buy in stagnating home market.

    The FREAK-est Links - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Sellers offered extra incentives to buy in stagnating home market.

    2007 December - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • According to the spokesman, who asked not to be named, senior clerks were "stagnating" because of too few promotional posts.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Far from "stagnating", non-farm production has grown faster in Saskatchewan since 1944 than in any other province except Alberta and more than twice the national average.

    Eighteen Years of C.C.F. Accomplishment in Saskatchewan 1963

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