How to Use buying power in a Sentence

buying power

noun
  • Wages have gone up faster than prices have for more than a year, which means people's buying power could catch up.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
  • But that was only a 13% boost to buying power.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
  • People will accept higher prices if their buying power stays ahead of the curve.
    — WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But a year and a half ago, that equation flipped, and workers’ buying power began to rise again.
    — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2024
  • In a time of inflation, flat funding means the buying power of these programs would shrink.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Wages have been climbing faster than prices for over a year now, giving workers a real boost in their buying power.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 12 June 2024
  • When the value of your portfolio goes down, the buying power of your 4% will also go down.
    — Aaron Cirksena, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • And the nation's buying power has never been so racially diverse.
    — Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In investing, however, buying power is what matters at the end of the day.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The average jar yields $58 in buying power.
    — USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The sharply higher home loan borrowing costs limited home hunters' buying power on top of years of soaring prices.
    — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • While the end of the cheap-money era hit buying power across Europe, a lack of supply is impacting prices in many cities.
    — Henrique Almeida, Fortune Europe, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Romance operates like a market, in other words, one in which some people have far more buying power than others.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • During the past 25 years, consumers have lost a tremendous amount of buying power to inflation.
    — Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Tariffs are taxes on goods, and imposing them reduces over-all buying power in the economy.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Home shoppers in southeast Florida have the most buying power of anywhere else in the country.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
  • It should be noted that the buying power amongst African-Americans has reached more than $1 trillion per year.
    — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • That means workers' real buying power is increasing, helping to offset the big price hikes of previous years.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
  • With mortgage rates near and above 7% for all of August, purchasers’ buying power was crushed, and for many the math for buying a home just did not work.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Gen Alpha’s buying power was also on full display, with bright packaging and buzzy formats coming to the fore.
    — James Manso, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Big Tech is moving from buying power to owning generation.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • If the conflict continues, Samad noted that consumers and buying power would be deeply impacted as well.
    — Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Fans were apparently eager to support the re-release, and their collective buying power has helped the project become a chart win once again.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • That rare combination boosted both demand and buying power, sending homes flying off the market and prices rising.
    — Chuck Bonfiglio, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2026
  • The buying power of a large IEEE membership base helps keep costs down with affordable group rates.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2020
  • So Medora, what does this new research find about the trend, kind of a bleak trend, that American's buying power is moving toward?
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
  • But since May 2023, that dynamic has flipped, giving consumers more buying power.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • So Noble Mobile has a chance to save Americans billions of dollars and get buying power back in their hands.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That can compound over the years, eroding buying power for the oldest retirees in particular, Johnson said.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 May 2023
  • This way, a household that reports nominally higher income — but not an increase in buying power — doesn’t tip over into a higher tax.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025

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