How to Use business cycle in a Sentence

business cycle

noun
  • There is a lot more going on than just the business cycle here.
    — Douglas Carr, National Review, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But yeah, there have always been ups and downs, business cycles.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
  • This metric could be the key to winning the next business cycle.
    — Christopher Bergh, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Bosses and workers are used to the ups and downs of business cycles.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 7 June 2026
  • Bosses and workers are used to the ups and downs of business cycles.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
  • To bulls, that’s a testament to the health of the business cycle.
    — Sid Verma, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • People get sick no matter where the country is in the business cycle.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The more critical debate, in my view, is how long the business cycle has to run.
    — Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Life does not have its own lane running parallel to your business cycle.
    — Sara Phelan, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • Depending on its stage in the business cycle, such a small brand may not yet be profitable.
    — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • There’s nothing says the business cycle has to be only focused on short term-ism.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 30 May 2018
  • These two trends had been reversed throughout much of the current business cycle.
    — Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • This county tends then to be the most cyclical county in the country in terms of the business cycle.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Most of the time, those words are used to tell the reader that the economic process has changed from the last business cycle.
    — Robert Barone, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • And both depend on long-term capital that can invest across decades rather than business cycles.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Overall, that whole ebb and flow in this business cycle has created some challenges.
    — Paul Gattis, AL.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Inflation is coming in the next two years, then will be followed by a boom/bust business cycle, or maybe two.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In truth, presidents simply don’t have much impact on the business cycle.
    — Scott Sumner, Twin Cities, 23 Aug. 2019
  • In March of 2000, the business cycle and earnings had peaked.
    — Nancy Tengler, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Winegarden pointed out that health care demand is not tied to the broader business cycle.
    — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • New capital investments on this scale may simply be too risky at this stage of the business cycle for many investors.
    — Allan Marks, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Bond bulls have a spring in their step thanks to softer economic data and signals the business cycle is close to peaking.
    — Sid Verma, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, it has been argued that the housing cycle is important enough to drive the overall business cycle.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In my opinion, our country needs a recession because that is part of the normal business cycle.
    — Louis Cannataro, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • And the maturity of the business cycle cuts both ways (see article).
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
  • There is the business cycle and the inflationary cycle, the rhythms of housing booms and credit busts.
    — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • What Americans are going through now isn’t just another turn in the business cycle.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Of course, congressional behavior and the business cycle played a role in these outcomes.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 14 June 2018
  • For the experts, economic challenges and even recessions are an inevitable part of the business cycle.
    — Shirin Etessam, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Expectations and timelines are now even faster, as though agents have pressed a fast‑forward button on the entire product and business cycle.
    — Roby Baruch, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026

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