budget
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The Legislature this year passed a budget that called for the state to shut at least one more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Romantic comedy Premature is out in cinemas next Friday, despite a microscopic budget that is the fraction of Hollywood productions like Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Because Lululemon was running on a shoestring budget, Wilson rented one hotel room for them to share, with separate beds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Roksolana Pidlasa, the head of the budget committee in Ukraine's parliament, described a bleak outlook.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
“We’ve used every scrap of construction paper in the whole district. And there’s no money in the budget to purchase more.”
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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"Higher energy and fuel prices are likely to place further pressure on household budgets, while elevated mortgage rates will continue to weigh on housing activity and wider consumer spending."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
She teaches a financial-literacy class to athletes at the University of Arizona, and encourages those who want to buy homes to create sample budgets and consider their long-term plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
BofA Securities says investor and corporate interest in quantum computing is surging as government funding, technological breakthroughs, and rising budgets push the technology closer to commercialization.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Home-insurance premiums hit a record high in June, dialing up the heat on homeowners’ budgets across America.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
President Snow takes a seat at the large desk of polished wood where Prim does her homework and my mother her budgets.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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The kingdom’s budget deficit, at the equivalent of $42.7 billion in the first half, is already running close to the shortfall it had budgeted for the entire year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It’s budgeted, capped, and it doesn’t touch retirement contributions or emergency savings.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Each of these programs went years past their original delivery deadlines and cost far more than originally budgeted.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Jamie's budgeted for dates in the past and would "think about where I could make savings elsewhere that week be it from my food or transport budget"
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
But they bowed to Sproul’s judgment that losing Lawrence would be even costlier, and voted to cover all the annual operating and maintenance costs that Lawrence had budgeted for the Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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They have cut out family trips and started meal-planning and budgeting to save money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
He served from 2008 to 2014 as Mr. Putin’s deputy minister of economic development, overseeing forecasting, strategic planning and budgeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
If you have worked in the world of defense budgeting, spending or contracting, we’d like to hear from you.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Universities offer a range of practical and wellbeing services, including budgeting advice, financial support, counselling and study support sessions.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
She had traveled for stories a few times in the past—down to Columbus, to investigate state budgeting cuts; up to Ann Arbor, when a former Shaker student had started at quarterback in the Michigan-OSU game.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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