surplus
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After the 1984 Olympics helped fund youth sports in L.A. for decades with a $230-million surplus, the 2028 Games have already jump-started adaptive sports opportunities as part of the PlayLA program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Malaysia’s merchandise trade surplus is expected to have widened in July, Barclays analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
AC Milan manager Ruben Amorim has told eight players - including England defender Fikayo Tomori, 28, and France forward Christopher Nkunku, 28 - that they are surplus to requirements at the Italian club.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Having a surplus in your cash reserves after all that is actually a pretty good outcome.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
With the development of the new organic insecticides and the abundance of surplus planes after the Second World War, all this was forgotten.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
The country has now racked up surpluses four straight months, following May’s downwardly revised C$3.7 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Because Jamaica ran sizable primary fiscal surpluses for more than a decade, halving its government debt-to-GDP ratio from 140% in 2012 to 62% in 2024.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Canada has now racked up trade surpluses two months this year, after a C$1.75 billion surplus in March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Prabowo himself has come under fire over the programme, especially for its hefty price tag at a time when Indonesia is grappling with dwindling trade surpluses and a weak currency.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Second, food production may be organized so as to generate stored food surpluses, which permit economic specialization and social stratification.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The city has been prioritizing the use of surplused land for “low-income housing” for several years.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Next he built a telecom infrastructure company — MK Global — that ”secured the rights to a $1 billion in equipment surplused in the wake of the dot-com crash.”
From Forbes ● Sep. 19, 2011
He couldn't look like that surplused boy, though.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
Consequently the neighborhood was notified that a sacred concert by a "surplused choir" composed of members of the Jenkins household, assisted by a few of their schoolmates, would be given a week from Wednesday night.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
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