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budget

[buhj-it] / ˈbʌdʒ ɪt /




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The 48-year-old, who is married with a 12-year-old daughter, says he has to find the extra money for fuel "from an already tight budget" and "dreads" filling up at the pump.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Qantas' budget carrier Jetstar is now the main domestic carrier, flying to the Gold Coast, Melbourne and Brisbane.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Arey, who was endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn., has vowed to ensure there’s more transparency and accountability surrounding the district’s nearly $10-billion annual budget.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

The academic year is nine months long, so her budget of $1,500 per month comes to $13,500 for the school year, or $6,750 per semester.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Bobby had taught himself, after years of practice, to budget his time and he hardly ever drifted into time pressure.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

But an AI assistant hears travelers describe their budgets, preferences and plans in their own words.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

They estimated that prices for these items, which make up a much larger share of household budgets among the nonwealthy, would have fallen on average by 1% over the year without the tariffs.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The issue is the most acute in nine local authorities where Greens are key partners in power-sharing arrangements, such as making up majorities that enable budgets to be passed and policy decisions to be made.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Many simply wanted their household budgets to stop shrinking as fuel and food prices spike.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

He began lobbying officials there to include the various second-line antibiotics on their list of “essential drugs”—a list that the ministries followed and allocated money for in their budgets.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The state budgeted about $4.1 billion for TK in the 2025-26 school year, alongside an additional $2.8 billion for its state preschool program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Abubakar has floated a plan for a "targeted" subsidy, described as "capped and budgeted production support tied to fuel refined in Nigeria" to help bring down prices at the pump.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

But manager Diana Logan‑Watts said diesel prices had "rocketed so quickly" that the extra costs were "not something that we had budgeted into account".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

At McMillan’s suggestion, Lawrence shrank his proposal to a 6-billion-volt machine budgeted at just under $10 million.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

There are conditions, but most members of the eurozone appear eligible for support in the event of a jump in bond yields that was not driven by their own irresponsible budgeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Adam Auriemma on budgeting, renting versus buying, investments, financial advisors, and more!

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

She added that, despite "budgeting proactively" and "being as careful as you can with savings and credit cards", rising bills mean people's financial situations are out of their control.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

A long-term infrastructure plan administered with two-year budgeting “sets clear priorities, identifies the projects that need to get done, and plans how to fund them over time,” proponents said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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