austerity
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Milei used social media to build a winning presidential campaign in 2023 with almost no political machine, rallying support for a painful austerity program and free-market overhaul he called economic-shock therapy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The government has started austerity programs to reduce energy use and rushed out subsidies to cushion the impact, straining its fiscal health.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
The austerity measures, cutting both square footage and head count, are helping.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The question is whether patriotic austerity can substitute for the harsher arithmetic of markets.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
And now she wept, after her long austerity, as though she would never be able to stop.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing austerity
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