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budget

[buhj-it] / ˈbʌdʒ ɪt /




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Others in the no camp say the country would have to hand over more decision-making power to the bloc in exchange for limited influence and membership would weigh on Iceland’s budget.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

People across income brackets are still traveling, but many are altering their behaviors to make vacations fit into their budget, Wynn says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The Space Force budget request for fiscal 2027 included $2.2 billion to invest in launch infrastructure.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Ella gave herself an imaginary budget of £1,000 each day to spend on imaginary purchases, which "scratched the itch" of shopping without the cost.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The unemployment caused home foreclosures, leading to shortfalls in property tax receipts, and therefore holes in the school budget.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Even while AI budgets are being funded aggressively, leaders can’t yet draw a straight line to the bottom line, meaning ROI hasn’t caught up to investment, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Ahead of that, the NHS Alliance has been gathering information from integrated care boards, which hold the budgets for local services, about the current state of care.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Unlike the federal government, states generally must balance their budgets annually.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

That makes family budgets even tighter going into the new school year.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

“Do you mean to say, all the baroness’s meddling...the silly rules, the strict budgets, the meaningless demands for paperwork, the proposed name change...”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The cost of these two clearances alone has been budgeted at £20m by the Environment Agency - although the Kidlington project has come in under the original £7.3m contract.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

It’s budgeted, capped, and it doesn’t touch retirement contributions or emergency savings.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

So far SpaceX is in line for more than $8 billion in Golden Dome-related contracts—at least a third of the total budgeted for the project so far.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

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

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

But you can’t really get anywhere without looking at real numbers, and that means sitting down with a budgeting system, whether it’s your own spreadsheet or some software.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Under the updated rules, associations budgeting less than 15% can still qualify if a reserve study supports it—provided the budget includes the study’s highest recommended reserve allocation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Parents have said a school uniform pop-up has helped ease the stress of budgeting for the new term.

From BBC Aug. 2, 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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