How to Use deregulation in a Sentence

deregulation

noun
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  • Many have prioritized what’s still doable: tax cuts and deregulation.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Another important dimension is that the Trump deregulation project is not over.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The small-business owners and white-collar developers who praised deregulation and pandemic loans.
    — Maria Polletta, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Some investors view Biden as more likely to raise taxes, and see a second term for Trump, who favors tax cuts and deregulation, as better for the stock market.
    — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Last month, those challenging the FCC's deregulation opted against a petition for review.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The government says the revamp will address the housing shortage, but a number of architects and housing charities have warned the deregulation could lead to low quality housing.
    — Fortune, 11 Aug. 2020
  • For the same reason so, so many things about the U.S. are so, so bad today: 1980s deregulation.
    — Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2022
  • And thanks to the deregulation of the preceding decades, the industry was wide open.
    — Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In 2018, the deregulation basically sent a signal to the Fed to stop the oversight on these banks.
    — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The early years of deregulation were good for the industry.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • One of the stakes in who controls the Senate in 2021 is the fate of the Trump Administration’s deregulation project.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2020
  • There's no doubt that Trump's tax cuts and deregulation helped boost markets.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Stick with the deregulation, Mr. President, and the price of hearing aids will fall far and fast enough that a subsidy isn’t needed.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • Truss vowed to stick with her plan to reshape Britain’s economy through tax cuts and deregulation in a bid to end years of sluggish growth.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In the former case, Congress convinced the public that deregulation caused the 2008 crisis.
    — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • That seems unlikely, given the politics and the long record of deregulation in Texas.
    — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • After deregulation, airlines dropped cities that had once served as hubs and pulled out of routes that were unprofitable.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Think of the old Texas Utilities Electric Co. before deregulation hit us at the turn of the century.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The collapse of two major banks in recent weeks has added scrutiny to deregulation in 2018.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Biden also took aim at Trump’s deregulation of methane, a greenhouse gas that in the short term is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide.
    — Adam Aton, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Biden also took aim at Trump's deregulation of methane, a greenhouse gas that in the short term is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide.
    — Adam Aton, Science | AAAS, 30 Sep. 2020
  • That effectively ended deregulation in the state for the time.
    — Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The Staggers Act is an example of deregulation done right.
    — Ian Jefferies, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The deregulation in Texas happened almost 20 years ago.
    — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Maybe this time, but there’s more to the story of Texas’ experiment with electric deregulation.
    — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Just about everyone has felt the effects of deregulation in recent years.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Norquist says that Trump largely kept his deregulation promise, and that was great for America.
    — John Stossel, Orange County Register, 17 July 2024
  • The decision came during a period of air travel deregulation that led to the elimination of the CAB in 1985.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Has this spurred a move toward deregulation of housing?
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • One is the hope that other bits of Mr. Trump’s agenda, particularly deregulation and lower taxes, would offset any negative consequences from tariffs.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024

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