ledger
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The Houston Astros were leading in the AL West with a ledger of 77-76, an utterly underwhelming showing that is barely above the .500 threshold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
They salvaged a point, or three, on other days, but they were on the wrong side of the ledger on so many occasions.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Yet that addresses only one side of the federal ledger — the spending side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Add the rest of the ledger and the pattern is unmistakable.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
And Brother Leon’s head still bent, concentrating on the ledger.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
Baker meticulously traces these changes as they materialized in art, literature, and the ledgers and letters of Italian merchants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Dr Helen Paul, an economic historian at the University of Southampton, was one of the experts brought in to decipher 18th Century ledgers.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
During her morning news conference, she seemed to mock some of the U.S. evidence, including hand-written ledgers allegedly denoting payoffs to Mexican politicians.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The bank previously said Hartheimer’s conduct was unrelated to its operations and that customers’ misplaced funds stemmed from inaccurate ledgers maintained by Synapse.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
About a hundred more goblins were sitting on high stools behind a long counter, scribbling in large ledgers, weighing coins in brass scales, examining precious stones through eyeglasses.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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