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WordBand 7–8Toofey picks
stagnate
/stæɡˈneɪt/
verb
To stay at one level without any growth or progress.
- “Wages stagnated while the cost of living kept rising.”Toofey
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Source: Written for Toofey (original); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))