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slowdown

[sloh-daun] / ˈsloʊˌdaʊn /


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While India's growing economic credentials and burgeoning population of newly minted millionaires are a natural tailwind for expansion, this growth is partly being driven by a slowdown in China.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Journal previously reported that he spoke with Musk hours after the slowdown became public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In September, a researcher resigned from Anthropic with a stark warning that leading AI labs were "gambling with our lives", and the bosses of Anthropic and fellow industry giant OpenAI have called for a slowdown.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Micron investors don’t only have to worry about a demand slowdown, but also about what happens if too much supply floods the market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The packinghouse foremen made it quite clear that the prior day’s riot did not merit any discussion or work slowdown.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

They’ve repeatedly urged coordinated industrywide slowdowns in development but never acted upon them.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

But the risk is that someone looking at a P/E ratio may not see as much downside risk as there actually is, he added, because profit margins “tend to compress sharply” during slowdowns.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

The statistical results also identified a cluster of evolutionary slowdowns around 15 million years ago, which coincided with another major geological event.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

Most critics have yet to share reviews of Iceman and Drake's two other new releases, but reports suggest that streaming services were hit with crashes and slowdowns as fans rushed to hear his new music.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Solution: investment in machinery that moved slaughtered livestock from one place to the next, eliminating slowdowns.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield


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