Sample Sentences for
stagnate
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    If the company doesn't innovate, it will stagnate and lose its competitive edge.
    stagnate = stop developing
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    ...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
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    they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.  (source)
    stagnation = not developing or improving
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    without progress there will be stagnation and decay.  (source)
    stagnation = a lack of development
    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.
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    Without standardized materials and methods, they worried that the field of tissue culture would stagnate.  (source)
    stagnate = not develop
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    a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.  (source)
    stagnating = stopping movement and development
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    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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    And since beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful, and he is static, his life stagnates in a china sea.†  (source)
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    without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.  (source)
    stagnation = lack of development
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    Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.  (source)
    stagnate = not develop
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    They gazed back at the ruined Monster, the stagnating mound, where already strange reptilian birds and golden insects were busy at the steaming armor.†  (source)
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    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
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    Hence arose that philosophy, at once bold and timid, broad and narrow, which has hitherto prevailed in England, and which still obstructs and stagnates in so many minds in that country.†  (source)
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