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How to use the word flattening in a Sentence?

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Markets reached peak prices early this spring, with the next few months expected to see a moderation in the pace of appreciation followed by a flattening in the fall, the good news is that for buyers frustrated by the past year's frenzied market, the shift toward a more normal landscape holds the promise of more homes to choose from, a slower pace of sales, and better prices.

George Ratiu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are not out of the woods. We are seeing a flattening of the curve, everything that should be up is up. Everything that should be down is down. Case rates, positivity rates, hospitalizations, ICUs -- testing starting to go back up, as well as vaccination rates in this state -- but we are not out of the woods.

Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The growth rate( of cases) has shown flattening since we implemented the masks in public rule and we're following the advice of our health care professionals and our hospital administrators who are telling us that what we have to do now is focus on enforcement, we created a special task force just for that and we've been issuing hundreds of tickets over the course of the week.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is flattening the curve, for elections, each person who votes by mail is one less person who is standing in line on Election Day.

David Becker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

(California) is flattening the curve. Expanding testing. And carefully re-opening businesses, but we MUST continue to take this seriously.

Gavin Newsom

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This is the action we have been waiting for, tyson's closing their plant will prove to be a positive step forward in preparing our community for the flattening the curve.

Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Keep doing what we're doing. Stay home because that works. We are flattening the curve.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You can't relax. The flattening of the curve last night happened because of what we did yesterday.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are flattening the curve by what we're doing and we're flattening the curve so far, you can't relax. The flattening of the curve last night happened because of what we did yesterday.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our actions have been better than the statisticians believed. So, we can flatten the curve. We are flattening the curve, we have to maintain it, but the human cost here, the human toll, the suffering, is just incredible. It's just incredible.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We do believe we are beginning to see the flattening of the curve.

Louisiana Governor John Edwards

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While none of this is good news, the possible flattening of the curve is better than the increases that we have seen, if we are plateauing, we are plateauing at a high level.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You may see in a relatively shorter period of Prime Time, when you're seeing the inkling of the flattening and coming down, but you know, you can't make an arbitrary decision until you see what you're dealing with. You need the data.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I believe on any projection that that flattening of the curve is not going to be enough, i don't see it as a curve. I see it as a wave. And the wave is going to crash onto our hospital system.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you look at the whole process of how paper is traditionally made, it involves chopping trees, adding chemicals and bleach to make pulp, using lots of water and then squeezing, drying and flattening it into sheets of paper, it's labor intensive, contributes to high carbon emission deforestation.

Kevin Garcia

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the'80s and'90s, we made great strides in treating cardiovascular disease, and I think that's largely a result of public health measures. So decreases in tobacco use, and recognition of this association between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, if anything, it's flattening out now, so what is the next step ? What is going to keep us on these declines ? Is it going to be public health measures again that are going to do it ?

Eric Adler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We think that the ongoing flattening, or outright inversion, of the curve is a bad sign for equities, as it usually has been in the past, arguments that the yield curve is no longer a reliable indicator seem to resurface every time it inverts, only to. be subsequently proved wrong.

Oliver Jones

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

People will be looking for any commentary on the impact of trade tensions on the U.S. economy and whether that's already weighing on investment, and on the flattening of the yield curve and what that means.

William Jackson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Although this month's flattening in core capital goods orders suggests we may have reached a bottom, the overall tone of the report suggests we are not yet seeing a reacceleration in the sector.

Jesse Edgerton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The overnight action with the flight to quality in China, and Europe as well, is a continuation of a larger move in the last six to eight trading sessions of a relentless flattening of the yield curve.

Edward Acton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The overnight action with the flight to quality in China and Europe as well, is a continuation of a larger move in the last six to eight trading sessions of a relentless flattening of the yield curve.

Edward Acton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The aim is to get out of its way without him flattening you, it's very rare that they come back for seconds and if that is the case, you have to get some more out of its way.

Van Heerden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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