How to Use hyperinflation in a Sentence

hyperinflation

noun
  • This was in a bid to improve access to forex in a time of hyperinflation.
    — Farai Shawn Matiashe, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
  • This is due to the way hyperinflation is defined and measured.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Venezuela's hyperinflation is so bad that food prices can double every week.
    — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 7 June 2018
  • Millions live in poverty amid high food prices, low wages and hyperinflation.
    — Star Tribune, 12 July 2021
  • Millions live in poverty amid high food prices, low wages, and hyperinflation.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2021
  • All of this in a country with hyperinflation and a deep economic malaise.
    — Rania Abouzeid, National Geographic, 26 Aug. 2020
  • That helped the country emerge from four years of hyperinflation and break a recession.
    — Nicolle Yapur, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2022
  • Venezuela has been plagued by hyperinflation and widespread shortages of basic goods and gas.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 21 July 2019
  • That’s the road in a banana republic to high or even hyperinflation.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The country is beset by hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine.
    — Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
  • When faith in central banks fails, so can faith in the value of money, leading to hyperinflation.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Many critics see the rate as a sign of approaching hyperinflation.
    — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 30 Dec. 2025
  • No one is worried about hyperinflation, at least not in the United States.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
  • And a bubble in asset markets is nothing more than … wait for it … a hyperinflation in those markets.
    — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
  • More than 1 million people have fled in recent years as hyperinflation and food and medicine shortages.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
  • At the other extreme, the private sector could have spent the handouts all at once, in which case there would have been hyperinflation.
    — Sebastian Mallaby, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Venezuela's bolivar has lost most of its value due to the country's hyperinflation.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 20 June 2018
  • As well as hyperinflation, Zimbabwe has been hit by severe drought in parts of the country.
    — Nyasha Chingono, CNN, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Salaries have been wiped out with hyperinflation and millions have been left hungry, malnourished and scouring through the garbage for food.
    — Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 18 May 2017
  • The once wealthy nation — which used to provide billions of dollars in aid to its allies — is caught in a hyperinflation spiral.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado and Mario J. Pentón, miamiherald, 6 Feb. 2018
  • As if to usher in Menem, a bout of hyperinflation broke out the month he was elected president.
    — Francisco Zalles, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Debit cards are a common form of payment in Venezuela, where cash is scarce and hyperinflation hit several years ago.
    — Jorge Rueda, The Seattle Times, 26 Mar. 2019
  • There is no reason to fear hyperinflation, or even anything on the scale of what was witnessed in the 1970s.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
  • With hyperinflation giving way to a rise in food prices, widespread hunger and malnutrition plagued the nation.
    — Jason Gonzalez, The Courier-Journal, 1 June 2022
  • Over the past decade, Venezuelans have faced hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages, and human rights abuses.
    — Marta Campabadal Graus and Maria Ramirez Uribe, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Aug. 2024
  • But the really strong stuff — hyperinflation — comes about when governments get into money creation in a big way to pay their bills.
    — Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Coke’s pricing rose 9% in the quarter, 4% of which came from markets dealing with hyperinflation.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Using the black market rate for dollars, a professor's salary here now tops out at about $8 a month, because of hyperinflation.
    — Anthony Faiola and Rachelle Krygier, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • Using the black market rate for dollars, a professor’s salary here now tops out at about $8 a month, because of hyperinflation.
    — Anthony Faiola and Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 3 June 2018
  • Food shortages and hyperinflation in Venezuela are pushing thousands of people to leave the country each day in search of a better life.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019

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