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How to use the word downside in a Sentence?

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These factors create a less hospitable borrowing environment, which would serve to bring inflation closer to a healthy level, more expensive, stricter lending helps to usher in the long-term health of the economy, but the downside is that borrowing for large purchases, including a home purchase, may be relatively more challenging in the short term.

Hannah Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The upside of hosting the Grammys in LA ... is that everyone can be here, the downside of hosting the Grammys in LA is the traffic.

Johnny Nunez/Getty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s exactly the way pay is supposed to work, the problem with pay traditionally is it’s been all upside and no downside. CEOs would often get all the credit and money for good times and then blame El Nino or some extraneous force for the downside. Now they are being forced to accept more responsibility.

Nell Minow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are considerable downside risks to sentiment, with two-thirds of consumers expecting an economic downturn during the next year, notably, the debt ceiling debate looms ahead and could reverse the gains seen over the last several months; past debt ceiling crises in 2011 and 2013 prompted steep declines in consumer confidence.

Joanne Hsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Instead of $4 a gallon happening in May, it could happen as early as March, there is more upside risk than downside risk.

Patrick De Haan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Powell and other Fed members may be considering if they should stay on their current path, the risks to the downside for the economy are very real.

Don Calcagni

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While it may seem economically bullish to assume the recession starts sometime in 2023, it's actually market bearish, especially if you are of the belief that the market still has to price in more downside for earnings.

Kevin Gordon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now stock market traders can go to sleep as nothing upside or downside in shares prices will happen till 2:30 pm today. Prices will remain in stagnant position largely between 10 am-2 pm

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

I think [Sanders] saw and we all saw the downside of the Soviet system, yes, they may have had low-cost apartments, but things were very out of whack — there were food shortages, no political freedom.

Howard Seaver

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Though Omicron is spreading faster than any COVID-19 variant yet, a relatively relieving (piece of) news is that most people infected with Omicron are showing mild symptoms, as least so far, that said, oil prices did suffer for the Omicron concerns, but the downside pressure may ease if the variant is proved to be more mild.

Leona Liu

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Can't blame female hosts of CNN not speaking out, the few women put on the air at CNN … aren't going to say a peep, because there's nothing but downside.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But there's not much downside either, right? the question is, what's changed since the last time they saw it? There is this full opinion, this full hearing before the judge and the record. So that may be enough.

Carl Tobias

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m not very optimistic about what could happen at the Supreme Court, but there's not much downside either, right?

Carl Tobias

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At some point production should pick up, allowing for the restocking of inventories and supporting sales, but it is unclear exactly when this will occur, the recent spread of the Delta variant and persistence of broader supply chain issues has generated some downside risk to the near-term outlook.

Daniel Silver

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Investors are trying balance the reopening of economies as vaccination rates go up, but also seeing the effects of the spreading Delta variant and that’s being reflected in the slowing economic data most of which has been surprising on the downside in the last two weeks.

Kerry Craig

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

A narrative around the peaking of economic growth in the second or third quarter is really hitting home, investors are trying balance the reopening of economies as vaccination rates go up, but also seeing the effects of the spreading Delta variant and that’s being reflected in the slowing economic data most of which has been surprising on the downside in the last two weeks.

Kerry Craig

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Global investors are likely cautious around upcoming Fed taper and the prospects of weaker Asian currencies. Current wave of virus resurgences across Asia and the resultant downside risks to regional growth are also weighing on investor sentiments.

Duncan Tan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I do think the markets — all of the markets — have priced in really good outlooks. So there could be more risk to the downside since so much good news has been priced in.

Tim Schmidt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's no upside to any of this, the question is how serious the economic downside is.

Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Worries about the Delta variant have become more widespread, ... subduing activity in some instances and raising concerns about the possibility of virus restrictions being tightened again, hence services growth in July was slightly less marked than the earlier flash estimate and future expectations cooled, presenting a significant downside risk to the outlook and hinting that growth could begin to slow again as we head toward the autumn.

Chris Williamson

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The overall trend of healthy-to-strong growth will continue into next year, downside risks remain large. The return of shutdowns from increased infections is unlikely, but cannot be ruled out. There are also upside risks, especially given all the extra saving since the spring of 2020.

Scott Hoyt

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Numerous universities and colleges have issued public statements supporting, and in some cases mandating, a criticalrace theory approach to the curriculum, usually usingcode words such as 'antiracism' or ‘equity,’ the proposed U. Nebraska Regents Resolution stands apart in that it gives an honest account of the downside of CRT in practice, which too often results in a narrowing of campus viewpoints.The resolution does not ‘ban’ CRT from the curriculum, to the contrary, it opposes‘imposition’ of CRT, and in so doing seeks to foster an open campus intellectual environment.

Bill Richardson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's just like brushing your teeth ; you wouldn't wake up and only brush your bottom teeth or decide to only brush for 20 seconds because you know the downside of poor dental hygiene.

Brandon Marcello

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The biggest downside risk to Friday’s jobs report is the difficulty employers are having finding workers.

North Carolina.The

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

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