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- noun Plural form of
influx .
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Examples
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If Greenspan and Bernanke are so certain of the calamitous effects of such "influxes" of capital, why weren't they warned about it?
LewRockwell.com 2009
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The state is no stranger to influxes of immigrants.
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But police have come to expect large influxes of pimps and prostitutes around certain events.
Kevin M. Ryan: Let's Not Let the Super Bowl Be a Business Opportunity for Sex Traffickers Kevin M. Ryan 2011
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Ultimately, if population and GDP were to stablize, net influxes + returns would stablize to withdrawals + depreciation, just like above.
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But police have come to expect large influxes of pimps and prostitutes around certain events.
Kevin M. Ryan: Let's Not Let the Super Bowl Be a Business Opportunity for Sex Traffickers Kevin M. Ryan 2011
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Its economy grew 4.8% on influxes of aid and telecommunication investments—its best growth level in more than a decade, according to the fund.
Guinea-Bissau President Dies Drew Hinshaw 2012
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They were led by states such as Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and Kentucky, which had influxes of young families or suffered higher rates of poverty.
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“The idea that big influxes of wealth will help Africa has never really panned out,” Patrick Keenan, an Africa specialist at the University of Illinois, told me.
The Next Empire 2010
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It may seem like states were forced to make a lot of hard decisions last year, but in fact they were sheltered from really dealing with the full measure of their own fiscal problems by large influxes of Federal “stimulus” money.
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Businessmen with money to spend on summer villas were its early Victorian colonists, followed soon by holiday influxes of the industrial working class.
Could rebranding Bute as a middle-class holiday haven halt its decline? | Ian Jack 2011
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