How to Use countercyclical in a Sentence

countercyclical

adjective
  • Her business is resilient and, in a sense, countercyclical.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Some vices are even thought to be countercyclical, rising when economy takes a nosedive.
    — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 24 May 2020
  • And given how modest countercyclical support has been so far, next quarter will almost certainly be worse.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Again, cyclical rather than countercyclical behavior and there were losses—but the industry’s and consumers, not the government.
    — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Joelle, is the lesson here that Keynesian economics, in terms of public investment priming the pump in countercyclical times, works?
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • What Goodwill sells on its site is limited to donations, which are generally countercyclical.
    — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Makers of consumer staple like General Mills tend to be countercyclical to the broader economy.
    — Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • In Mexico, for instance, one group of farmers supplements its corn income with countercyclical honey and coffee harvests.
    — Raj Patel, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2021
  • WeWork has entered into revenue-sharing leases with some landlords, which can offer countercyclical relief.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • What Keynes instead showed is that capitalist crisis does not resolve itself; only activist countercyclical policy will do that.
    — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The countercyclical factor—the calculation of which remains a mystery to market participants—gives the central bank a heavier hand in setting the daily fixing.
    — Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Publishing rights are also considered a countercyclical investment, holding their value if prices for assets like equities and real estate fall.
    — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Finally, in times of stress, a CBDC might be considered as a safe refuge which would also lead to a countercyclical reduction in deposits of banks.
    — Jason Brett, Forbes, 25 June 2022
  • The program is countercyclical, which means enrollment is expected to increase during bad times and then decrease again once the economy recovers, so the one-time funding increase is necessary.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2020
  • General Mills is a part of the consumer staples segment that tends to be countercyclical to the broader economy, thriving during recessions and crises when consumers focus on basic needs.
    — Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Germany in particular has come under fire for refusing to open the fiscal spigots in a bout of countercyclical spending, despite its unique ability to borrow out to thirty years at negative interest rates.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2019
  • These two job categories have experienced much volatility during the pandemic, running countercyclical with expectations for the progression of the virus.
    — Robert H. Brown, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • The announcement was accompanied by a package of measures including a new lending scheme and the reduction of the countercyclical capital buffer for commercial banks to 0%.
    — Lorcan Roche Kelly, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The countercyclical risk reduction inherent in GE’s mega-growth ignored the fact that shareholders could better diversify risk in their own portfolio of holdings.
    — Fortune, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Ordinarily, higher education is countercyclical, so its outlook doesn't necessarily move in the same direction as the rest of the economy during a downtown.
    — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The stimulus measures Wall Street is cheering on now are more like traditional countercyclical policy on steroids than post-Keynesian policy.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 11 Dec. 2020
  • For instance, it is commonly believed that a company’s sector is the main driver of how badly they will be hurt by an economic downturn—countercyclical industries will still have opportunities, while cyclical ones will be in for uniform pain.
    — Tom Deegan, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2021
  • And student accommodation has a valuable countercyclical quality.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Unlike economically more-influential nations, the flexibility of a small nation’s countercyclical monetary policy should not be a factor in making the decision to go passive.
    — Max Raskin, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The council, led by central bank Governor Lars Rohde, said in December that banks should begin building up a countercyclical buffer amid persistent worries about runaway house prices in urban areas.
    — Frances Schwartzkopff, Bloomberg.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Movie theaters have long been considered a countercyclical economic indicator, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, which tracks an array of media platforms, including the silver screen.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025

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