budget
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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
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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
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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
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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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