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budget

[buhj-it] / ˈbʌdʒ ɪt /




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The bank expects a sequential decline in their 3Q capex despite projecting a significant increase in their total capex budget for the 2026 calendar year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The budget reached a then-record for Warner Bros.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 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

Getting down to the level of quarks–the particles that make up particles–requires still more: trillions of volts of electricity and the budget of a small Central American nation.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

It also delays implementation and includes the funds in annual budgets, which require annual approval.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 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

They start talking about serious things like budgets and numbers, which is my cue to get to the bus.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

Each of these programs went years past their original delivery deadlines and cost far more than originally budgeted.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

That could lead to a nasty surprise for which they might not have budgeted.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission are each budgeted to carry over 400 antitrust attorneys.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

First, experts in mosquito control complained that Congress had not budgeted enough money for the campaign to succeed.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Her successors have tried to rebuild investors’ trust by sticking to strict budgeting rules, but investors remain anxious about the U.K.’s debt path.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

The report also identified gaps in financial and budgeting knowledge among district leaders and school board members.

From Salon Aug. 15, 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

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

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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