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Hawkish in a sentence

Hawkish | Hawkishness

Hawkish meaning

  1. Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
  2. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
  3. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.

Synonyms of Hawkish

militant warlike unpeaceful

Using Hawkish

  • The main meaning on this page is: Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour. | Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action. | Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
  • Useful related words include: militant, warlike, unpeaceful.
  • In the example corpus, hawkish often appears in combinations such as: more hawkish, the hawkish, his hawkish.

Context around Hawkish

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Hawkish

  • In this selection, "hawkish" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, stay, considered, less, tone, foreign and boe stand out and add context to how "hawkish" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a hawkish boe should and a markedly hawkish stance on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "hawkish" sits close to words such as adhesive, aleppo and apprehend, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with hawkish

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Comments are so far not that hawkish. (7 words)

A hawkish BoE should continue to support the British pound. (10 words)

BoE's Mann: The Fed and the ECB have been quite hawkish. (12 words)

As we've said all week, Powell has every reason to stay hawkish - inflation is still running north of 4%, too far from the 2% target for comfort - but the fact remains we're still likely closer to the end of this hiking cycle than the beginning. (47 words)

Financial Times: In a highly anticipated speech on Friday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve at times struck a hawkish tone, pointing to the central bank's readiness to maintain a "restrictive" policy to bring inflation down to its 2 per cent target. (44 words)

By their reckoning, the damage from 10 straight increases has been done and the collapse of three US lenders in March was just a taste of the bigger crisis to come as central banks stay hawkish until something else breaks. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

A hawkish BoE should continue to support the British pound.

As we've said all week, Powell has every reason to stay hawkish - inflation is still running north of 4%, too far from the 2% target for comfort - but the fact remains we're still likely closer to the end of this hiking cycle than the beginning.

At the same time, if Powell is not considered “hawkish enough” by currency traders at Jackson Hole, the dollar may ease to around 145 yen to end the week, he said.

BoE's Mann: The Fed and the ECB have been quite hawkish.

But don’t be surprised if guidance is more hawkish than last month – inflation is sticky, the U.S. policy outlook has shifted dramatically, and the won has slumped 7 percent in the last two weeks.

But the Bank's hawkish approach to inflation is coming at a high cost to output, growth and prosperity.

But the market reaction, including what may turn out to be the largest drop in Italian 10-year yields for almost three years, suggests such hawkish rhetoric is starting to fall on deaf ears.

By being less hawkish than its global counterparts, the bank hopes to remain on the right side of history.

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By their reckoning, the damage from 10 straight increases has been done and the collapse of three US lenders in March was just a taste of the bigger crisis to come as central banks stay hawkish until something else breaks.

Comments are so far not that hawkish.

Financial Times: In a highly anticipated speech on Friday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve at times struck a hawkish tone, pointing to the central bank's readiness to maintain a "restrictive" policy to bring inflation down to its 2 per cent target.

For 2023, we would expect EUR correlation to broadly rise on the back of hawkish ECB driving Eurozone periphery debt risk higher.

Global equities rose on Monday as talks in Washington resumed to avert a U.S. default, and gold prices retreated under pressure from hawkish remarks by Federal Reserve officials.

Hawkish is a term used to describe Fed officials who take a strong stance on combating inflation despite the downside risks to the economy.

In currency markets, the dollar index rose 0.90% to 105.15 as investors navigate between the Fed’s hawkish tone and the support for riskier currencies driven by China’s reopening.

Indeed, in comments on Tuesday, Bowman took a markedly hawkish stance on future monetary policy.

Kennedy can be forceful in denouncing aspects of U.S. militarism – making valid points about hawkish foreign policies that shun diplomacy while enriching military contractors.

Most well-known for his hawkish foreign policy views, he ironically found himself in the minority for the first time in decades after the 1980 Reagan landslide.

The commentary from Fed officials at the start of the week was more hawkish than what investors wanted to hear following a knockout jobs report.

The Fed held rates in a range of 5.25%-5.50%, but the decision was a “hawkish pause” as the Fed warned that rates could remain “higher for longer”.

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Common combinations with hawkish

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "hawkish" in a sentence?
An example: "A hawkish BoE should continue to support the British pound." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "hawkish" from authentic English texts.
What does "hawkish" mean?
Hawkish means: Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
What are synonyms of "hawkish"?
Common synonyms of "hawkish" include: militant, warlike, unpeaceful.
How many example sentences with "hawkish" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "hawkish", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.