How to Use expansionary in a Sentence

expansionary

adjective
  • Holtz-Eakin thinks that expansionary policy isn’t the way to fix it.
    — Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 27 May 2017
  • What’s your take on the prospect of, say, tax reform, expansionary policy this year?
    — WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Himelsein is known for his mean expansionary approach to the markets.
    — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • For more than a year the Fed has been pursuing an expansionary policy for the ages.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 May 2021
  • But the fund warned that expansionary measures could disrupt markets and the economy in the longer run.
    — Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But the impact of expansionary fiscal policy peaked in the second quarter of this year.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Pricing should get better, even as the economic data is still expansionary.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Congress just passed expansionary fiscal policy through the tax reform bill.
    — Mark Daly, idahostatesman, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Turkey was entering its expansionary era, and those with the right connections prospered.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 22 July 2017
  • The purpose is to contain the damage, not to be aggressively expansionary.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 17 Feb. 2021
  • That announcement came despite evidence that the euro area economy has lost some of its expansionary pace.
    — David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 22 June 2018
  • The government switched to expansionary measures such as the easing on foreign-currency loans.
    — David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
  • However, unlike the expansionary money phase, the contractionary phase won’t be fun.
    — Ivan Illan, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • In the longer term, the country still faces the confluence of expansionary fiscal and monetary policy.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 June 2021
  • Some market participants have long thought that the US economy is at the end of its expansionary cycle.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020
  • This kind of expansionary fiscal policy, which may be in place for years, could undermine attempts by central banks like the Fed to fight inflation.
    — Steve Schifferes, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The first factor in the current inflation is the highly expansionary monetary policy in recent years.
    — Jeffrey D. Sachs, CNN, 12 May 2022
  • Stocks have historically risen 85% of the time on a one-year basis during expansionary periods.
    — Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021
  • She’s expected to usher in further expansionary policies.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026
  • And third, the government is keeping fiscal policy expansionary.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Pursuit of this goal was one reason that the Fed maintained an overly expansionary policy, with consequences of which we have only just been reminded.
    — Thomas L. Hogan, National Review, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Despite those expansionary ambitions, Walgreens brass doesn't expect to compete head-to-head with Amazon.
    — Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • This would seem to leave very little room for the expansionary fiscal policies Trump would like to see, including extending the personal tax cuts that will expire at the end of next year.
    — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The 6% deficit to GDP ratio the government is running is unheard of in an expansionary economy.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Part of this may be that in the Malthusian world there were recollections of periods in their culture when the demographic parameters were expansionary.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2010
  • The seven-decade-long growth of entitlements and the pandemic response are the product of expansionary forces that operate on Congress regardless of who is in charge.
    — John F. Cogan, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Long term, expansionary monetary policy leads to inflation.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But in a country with excessively high levels of consumption, like the modern United States, the same policy can be expansionary.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Whereas expansionary monetary policy puts downward pressure in the short term, the subsequent surge in inflation causes interest rates to rise.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The official export-order subindex climbed into expansionary territory for the first time this year, while the Caixin survey showed export orders hitting a three-year high.
    — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020

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