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How to use the word DAMPEN in a Sentence?

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If that [wage-price spiral] were to begin, that’s very difficult to put back in the would-be bottle after the fact, in trying to essentially dampen demand for workers through higher interest rates — a rather inelegant tool to try to achieve that result — they’re just trying to manage that risk.

Mark Hamrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With labor market conditions poised to cool further amid tighter financial conditions and growing financial market uncertainty likely to dampen households’ willingness to spend, we foresee soft consumer spending growth in coming quarters, recent data on household spending and credit growth indicate that we will likely see a K-shaped consumer spending pattern in 2023, with low- and median-income families exercising more spending restraint, and families at the higher of the income spectrum still spending, albeit with more discretion.

Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mortgage rates rose across all mortgage loan types, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increasing by almost a quarter of a percent from last week, the rise in mortgage rates so far this year has not yet affected purchase demand, but given the fast pace of home price growth, it will likely dampen demand in the near future.

Sam Khater

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What happened yesterday was traumatic, but I refuse to let it dampen my love for the city of Philadelphia or the gem that is FDR Park, the fact is, this type of crime can happen anywhere and to anyone — yesterday it happened to me. Sadly, we know that over the course of the last year or two, since the onset of the pandemic, we have seen a spike in certain crimes across the country, including gun violence and carjacking.

Mary Gay Scanlon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It will dampen inflation talk, we would prefer that inflation gets tempered and the Delta variant could temper it. That's not the way we want to temper it, of course.

Brian Wenzel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Anything that we can do to dampen the number of times it replicates … will buy us a little bit of time.

Paul Duprex

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Millions of people are staring at a wall of expiring support programs, such as the pandemic unemployment insurance and eviction protection, which dampen the brightness of the incoming holiday season, while we see a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel with upcoming vaccines, there is still a big question around whether Congress can come to terms on a new stimulus package to help the country recover from the current economic downturn.

George Raitu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are not a lot of economic bright spots right now, but one is that with record low mortgage rates homeowners can refinance their mortgages and generate meaningful monthly savings. That savings can shore up their finances and they will end up pumping it back into the economy. Why would you dampen that ?

Greg McBride

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If buyers are hesitant to go shopping because they want to avoid contact with others, this could dampen home sales directly, as social distancing is practiced by more people for longer periods of time, a slowdown in consumer spending could eventually lead to job loss and lower incomes.

Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
4 years ago

However, the Fed's reluctance to tighten policy should help to dampen upside potential for U.S. yields and the U.S. dollar.

Lee Hardman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The relative attractiveness of the U.S. dollar has been boosted in the near-term by building concerns over the outlook for growth outside of the U.S., the rising probability of President (Donald) Trump winning a second term and further evidence of the ongoing resilience of the U..S economy, however, the Fed's reluctance to tighten policy should help to dampen upside potential for U.S. yields and the U.S. dollar.

Lee Hardman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Uncertainty will dampen business investment and trade flows.

Elena Duggar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you take general patterns too seriously, and try to be attractive to every girl, you will dampen or eliminate a trait of yours that may be intensely attractive to one girl.

Roosh Valizadeh

added by Mattd6422
4 years ago

The intense craving is what drives the drug use, if we can have the medications that can dampen that [ craving ], that can greatly reduce the chance of relapse and overdose risk.

Yasmin Hurd

Found on CNN
4 years ago

An adequate force posture can actually dampen Iranian escalation prospects, weakness and irresolution can lead to more Iranian testing and meddling, not less.

Ben Talebu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These tit-for-tat trade tariffs will ultimately raise prices for consumers and will likely dampen demand for products.

Jack Ablin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The 'leave' outcome has introduced substantial uncertainty that likely would dampen U.S. growth by delaying and or reducing business investment and consumption expenditures.

William Lee

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The uncertain political environment will likely dampen momentum for reforms. I'm a bit skeptical that a snap vote will bring the desired political stability.

Jakub Kratky from Generali Investments

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Slower income growth is likely to dampen the demand for our tourism exports, as UK travelers may well postpone long-haul travel until economic conditions improve.

New Zealand

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

With any election, for whatever silly reason, it seems to dampen consumer confidence, it's common knowledge that things just don't fly. If you look at the U.K. with (the) Brexit, certainly the corporates have come off.

Flight Centre

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Finance Minister Aso stated strongly that sudden yen strength or weakness is bad and that Japan has the means to intervene, he also attempted to alter market expectations that US opposition will prevent Japan from intervening. Overall, the comments do not significantly change our view that direct intervention to dampen yen strength remains unlikely in the near-term.

Lee Hardman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

A sharper slowdown of activity in emerging markets and renewed weakness of activity in the euro area could weaken exports more strongly than projected, dampen investment, and spill over to consumer confidence.

The OECD

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a universal issue, how do we control these prices and at the same time not dampen incentives to innovate?

Geoffrey Joyce

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The timing of those moves may have been at least partly driven by the dawning realization that not only will the Bank of Canada not move to dampen housing with rate hikes anytime soon, there is the very real risk that they could fuel it further with yet more rate cuts.

Doug Porter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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