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[buhj-it] / ˈbʌdʒ ɪt /




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The sales period included Halloween, but Williams said this was £1.5m ahead of budget.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

“The council members will need the mayor. She’s the person who approves the budget and can spotlight their priorities,” Sadhwani said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

Last week’s annual budget plan said individual Canadians could participate in the fund’s returns through the purchase of government-issued notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

“You make an agreement like, ‘We will move in together and split costs 50-50,’ then you come up with an operating budget for the year.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Phil Resch said, “My departmental budget could never in a million years be stretched—”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

"There are always issues with budgets," Blecher insisted.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Understanding these contributions can help researchers develop more complete carbon budgets, which track the sources, movements, and destinations of carbon within the Earth's systems.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Store merchants historically negotiated directly with consumer brands for shelf placement, and when centralized ad teams tried selling digital banner ads online, merchants worried their trade budgets would disappear, former employees said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Those directly providing services say they are having to subsidise squeezed NHS budgets.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

In many parts of Latin America there is a resentment, abundantly justified, of U.S. workers with big budgets swooping in to profit from the work of poor local scholars.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

"It's extremely difficult and every month we run out of money before the end of the month despite trying to keep our costs as low as possible and budgeting well," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

If it feels like classic budgeting rules aren’t working for you, you’re not alone.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

As David’s continues developing its AI tools, it’s adding new “embedded tasks” inside Pearl, such as a budgeting capability based on where the wedding will be held.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

You get real advice on budgeting, paying down debt, and building savings without being pushed toward products you don’t need or paying a percentage on money you haven’t accumulated yet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 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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