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  • If the company doesn't innovate, it will stagnate and lose its competitive edge.
    stagnate = stop developing
  • without progress there will be stagnation and decay.  (source)
    stagnation = a lack of development
  • Back in Detroit, the labor war had stagnated, with each side accusing the other of failing to communicate.  (source)
    stagnated = stopped developing
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  • they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.  (source)
    stagnation = not developing or improving
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Without standardized materials and methods, they worried that the field of tissue culture would stagnate.  (source)
    stagnate = not develop
  • a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.  (source)
    stagnating = stopping movement and development
  • While we argue that schooling girls does stimulate economic growth and foster stability, for example, it is also true that one of the most educated parts of rural India is the state of Kerala, which has stagnated economically.  (source)
    stagnated = stopped developing
  • Time stagnates here: we must surely have retired to rest at eight!'†  (source)
    stagnates = stays still or doesn't develop
  • without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.  (source)
    stagnation = lack of development
  • ...she has sent her here to be healed, even as the Jews of old sent their diseased to the troubled pool of Bethesda; and, teachers, superintendent, I beg of you not to allow the waters to stagnate round her.  (source)
    stagnate = be inactive
  • As the host droned through the starter's introduction, Pollard fidgeted in the crowd, slurping up champagne and, like everyone else, stagnating in boredom.†  (source)
    stagnating = staying still or not developing
  • If you didn't exercise enough, your muscles stagnated.  (source)
    stagnated = stopped developing
  • As where Rhone stagnates on the plains of Arles, Or as at Pola, near Quarnaro's gulf, That closes Italy and laves her bounds, The place is all thick spread with sepulchres; So was it here, save what in horror here Excell'd: for 'midst the graves were scattered flames, Wherewith intensely all throughout they burn'd, That iron for no craft there hotter needs.†  (source)
    stagnates = stays still or doesn't develop
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