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- noun Plural form of
depression .
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Examples
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We placed them in depressions in the rock, and, with a piece of rock in our hands, we cracked them and ate them as we cracked.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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Of course, from the employee's POV, the most important issue between economic depressions is getting the seemingly recalcitrant employer to, "Show me the money." when he is far more productive than "the coin", and the executives are raking in huge cash and option while seeming to fail to "materialize the coin", themselves.
European Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Certainly the early years were not too promising, and a lot of the reason that we have had no further depressions is that we have simply renamed them as recessions, which was not a term used before the Great Depression.
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Sinkholes can go from low terrain depressions to hundred of meters.
Gigantic Sinkhole Opens Up In Guatemalan City | Impact Lab 2010
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We placed them in depressions in the rock, and, with a piece of rock in our hands, we cracked them and ate them as we cracked.
Chapter XIV 1906
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It was one of those end-of-term depressions, a knowledge that everything had shifted, and I couldn’t go back.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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It was one of those end-of-term depressions, a knowledge that everything had shifted, and I couldn’t go back.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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It was one of those end-of-term depressions, a knowledge that everything had shifted, and I couldn’t go back.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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They used to all be called depressions until they became known as recessions.
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They used to all be called depressions until they became known as recessions.
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