- plural of deficit.
deficits
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Greece, Sweden and Canada boast lower deficits than their peers because they experienced traumatic debt crises within the living memory of most voters and politicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
And those rates — paired with high government spending and concerns over mounting deficits — have pressured the bond market, pushing 10-year Treasury yields to levels not seen since the early 2000s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Meanwhile, the deficits of other countries in the eurozone—which drove contagion in the early 2010s—remain stable, while political support for exiting the eurozone has declined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
We all know inflation is too high, the Fed has a difficult job and fiscal deficits aren’t disappearing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Giving himself repeated daily shots of canine insulin in the abdomen, arm, or leg, Woolf almost certainly spent his days boomeranging between insulin gluts and deficits.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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