outgo
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Our outgo is a small fraction of these figures.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
Data showed commodity funds lost $1.3 billion in outflows in their first weekly net selling in six weeks, with precious metal funds and energy funds recording $527 million and $281 million worth of outgo, respectively.
From Reuters ● Mar. 3, 2023
Investors jettisoned taxable bond funds worth $10.25 billion marking the largest outflow since Feb. 16, while municipal funds recorded capital outgo of $4.39 billion.
From Reuters ● Apr. 18, 2022
The federal budget is a very detailed estimate of receipts and expenditures, an anticipation of federal income and outgo, during the next fiscal year.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
There has been no outgo of property for which, in any other relation, he could claim a reward or compensation from his fellow.
From Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott
"States need to contain and rationalise their subsidy outgoes, so that such spending does not crowd out more productive expenditure."
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
Any return from his products beyond enough to meet these outgoes he will consider profits.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
They are not farre assunder: a curst wife Is evermore mans worst aflyctyon, And shee that outgoes myne in bytternes May fryght the whole worlde.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
This thirty years' war against high prices, this perpetual study of economics, this life-long attempt to keep the outgoes less than the income, exhausts millions of housekeepers.
From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
Why," she said, "I suppose that some old-fashioned people still do their marketing, and people that have to look to their outgoes, and know what every mouthful costs them.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by William Dean Howells
No lawyer in New England had laid down such southern "Principles" for foundation of law; he outwent Mr. Sprague.
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker
At the time, however, of which we are speaking, his ambition of distinction far outwent both his powers and opportunities of attaining it.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
I knew her for my equal mentally; in so many things she was beyond comparison cleverer than I; her courage outwent mine.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The cutter Was as another Nature, dumb; outwent her, Motion and breath left out.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
As a bird that had been frighted from its nest, my affections outwent my haste, and hovered round my little fireside with all the rapture of expectation.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black
As they parted in the riotous dawn, Mario gave Lauro's city soccer team a $200,000 South American soccer player in token of friendship, and the mayor, not to be outgone, promised Mario a yacht.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But this, though not arduous, had outgone his ambition, nature having gifted him with a remarkable power of extracting nourishment from food, which is now called assimilation.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
For me, while some of my friends have thought me exacting, I may say Ossoli has always outgone my expectations in the disinterestedness, the uncompromising bounty, of his every act.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
Nickleby's success had so far outgone even the expectation raised by Pickwick's, that, without some handsome practical admission of this fact at the close, its publishers could hardly hope to retain him.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
Alas, by what destinies is he driven! what wars outgone he chronicled!
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Next year, its outgoing chair, Sir John Mitting, is expected to rule on whether Coles or Jessica is telling the truth.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
He defended the decision to prioritize production of the outgoing RAV4 last year, saying the 2025 vehicle remained “red hot” even as the newly updated one was right around the corner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Charlie was very outgoing when it came to the youth,” Tedesco said.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
A more measured summation was offered by Tony Thurmond, the outgoing state superintendent of public instruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
When he took the job, the only piece of advice he was given by the outgoing superintendent was never to promise anyone Permian season tickets.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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