How to Use disinflation in a Sentence

disinflation

noun
  • The disinflation trend might be a blip that owes too much to falling oil prices.
    — Denitsa Tsekova, Fortune, 30 July 2023
  • Most economists view a rate cut next month as a toss-up amid signs of a slowdown in the disinflation trend.
    — Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Still, disinflation does not mean that prices are falling outright.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Traders in the stock market don’t seem to care what’s behind the recent disinflation.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • Data from the last two inflation readings all points to stalling progress on disinflation.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
  • That can only mean more disinflation and deeper interest-rate cuts.
    — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Yet the Fed’s sting has left lingering wounds that only sustained progress in disinflation can heal.
    — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The winds of disinflation have been blowing through American retail for decades.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • If this disinflation trend persists, the first Fed rate cut could come before the end of the year as anticipated.
    — Orphe Divounguy | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 July 2024
  • For disinflation trends to continue throughout the summer, labor market weakness will need to pick up.
    — CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In January, though, hopes of disinflation were dashed as new data showed jobs growth and core inflation rising.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This, however, was one of the slowest year-over-year increases in months—a sign of what Gerli calls disinflation.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And if the Fed cuts rates in the meantime (as disinflation is giving them room to do), prospects for further job creation should only brighten.
    — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
  • But disinflation—inflation rising at a slower rate—isn’t the same as deflation, which is falling prices.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Tariffs and recession may be the medicine to create disinflation and getting that 10-year yield lower.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Much of the recent disinflation has come as unusual shifts that took place during and after the pandemic have slowly faded.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • After a long downturn and disinflation central banks would have to push to find the limits of the economy’s capacity.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • This success has defied the view, held by many economists just a couple of years ago, that disinflation would require years of high unemployment.
    — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The pause in interest rate cuts has primarily been due to waiting for further progress on disinflation at a time when the job market appears robust.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The labor market and signs of future disinflation The May jobs report mostly showed that the labor market held up.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 2 June 2023
  • The consumer price index reinforced the trend of disinflation and brought a degree of relief to markets still reeling after last week’s meltdown.
    — Rita Nazareth, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
  • And while the headline figures have been eye-catching, core inflation has surged as well, suggesting a long, slow process of disinflation is in store once prices actually peak.
    — Fortune, 2 Apr. 2022
  • That’s partly because most of the factors that have helped inflation to fall so far have been widely anticipated, sort of the low-hanging fruit of disinflation.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • But if disinflation accelerates, there could be a fairly large boost in market sentiment and a surge in traders’ commitment to equities.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Such a plateau is frustrating after seeing significant disinflation in the preceding few years.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But this will be difficult to justify unless disinflation is clearly underway.
    — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Along with the subsequent Volcker disinflation, the direct impact of central banks on inflation seemed clear.
    — Douglas Carr, National Review, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Small businesses are more likely to cite inflation as their principal worry as any time since the beginning of the Reagan disinflation.
    — Lawrence H. Summers, Time, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Chair Jerome Powell said that while inflation has come down considerably, the central bank wants to see more signs of disinflation before beginning to ease rates.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The central bank decided July 12 to raise borrowing costs against a backdrop of broadening disinflation that seemed to argue against such a move.
    — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017

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