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[buhj-it] / ˈbʌdʒ ɪt /




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They contend that the higher costs will be passed along to consumers, and they also take issue with funneling a new funding source to a niche industry without going through the budget process.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

“Basically, no film studio wants to give her the budget to turn her books into a movie with real actors, so she’s resorting to AI studios,” wrote one person on Reddit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

The bank expects a sequential decline in their 3Q capex despite projecting a significant increase in their total capex budget for the 2026 calendar year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The impressive visual fidelity has been attributed to the amount of time Rockstar has spent working on the game, and its budget, which is thought to be among the most expensive in video game history.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

I had to make her promise to stick to a budget, and after way too much back and forth, she agreed.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Ahead of that, the NHS Alliance has been gathering information from integrated care boards, which hold the budgets for local services, about the current state of care.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Unlike the federal government, states generally must balance their budgets annually.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

Wars, the bursting of the dot-com bubble and tax cuts sent budgets off course in the early 2000s.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

That makes family budgets even tighter going into the new school year.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

At present our understanding is meager—probably because disarmament budgets have, since the time of Sargon of Akkad, been somewhere between ineffective and nonexistent.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Each of these programs went years past their original delivery deadlines and cost far more than originally budgeted.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

That could lead to a nasty surprise for which they might not have budgeted.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

This summer her budget is £500, and she sits down with her children to discuss how much they have budgeted and to brainstorm activities they can do together.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

“I think we’ve budgeted for more than enough,” van Regteren said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

At McMillan’s suggestion, Lawrence shrank his proposal to a 6-billion-volt machine budgeted at just under $10 million.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

This is where you really need to have a handle on your functional budgeting in retirement.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

The report also identified gaps in financial and budgeting knowledge among district leaders and school board members.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

Under the updated rules, associations budgeting less than 15% can still qualify if a reserve study supports it—provided the budget includes the study’s highest recommended reserve allocation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Parents have said a school uniform pop-up has helped ease the stress of budgeting for the new term.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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