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budget

[buhj-it] / ˈbʌdʒ ɪt /




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States members are due to debate and vote on the budget in December.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

“It comes down to a feasibility and budget issue,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

They noted that the studio’s “Scary Movie” grossed more than $230 million , one of Paramount’s top three box office hits, this year against a budget of roughly $30 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

I wonder if you’ve ever tried giving your family a budget for how much you’d like to spend on travel.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

A package from Owl, an up-and-coming online budget fashion retailer.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

It didn’t provide any of the schedules or budgets required in the contract with the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Funding for the scheme is expected to come from reprioritising existing budgets; but housing developers will pay towards the running costs.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Here are five charts and tables demonstrating rising prices influenced Americans’ budgets:

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

If consumers’ budgets become strained or if carriers are less willing to lend buyers a financial hand, sales could evaporate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

President Snow takes a seat at the large desk of polished wood where Prim does her homework and my mother her budgets.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Current estimates indicate that the second correction and orbital insertion should both require less fuel than originally budgeted.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The process: They had initially budgeted for homes around $530,000 in the suburb, which is about 40 miles north of Seattle.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

The cost of these two clearances alone has been budgeted at £20m by the Environment Agency - although the Kidlington project has come in under the original £7.3m contract.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

First, experts in mosquito control complained that Congress had not budgeted enough money for the campaign to succeed.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Congress established CBO in 1974 to advise its budgeting, and it plays a useful role in tracking monthly spending figures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

My fiancé and I were doing well with budgeting, but things started to unravel a bit after we moved to a new apartment in July.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Even those budgeting fall and winter travel this week will likely see elevated prices.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

They have cut out family trips and started meal-planning and budgeting to save money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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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