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budget

[buhj-it] / ˈbʌdʒ ɪt /




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Finance minister John Healey delivers the first budget of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's administration on October 28, also against a backdrop of rising borrowing costs for the government, businesses and individuals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The ONS said that government spending exceeded its revenues by 24.5 billion pounds in September, an increase in the budget deficit of 1.8 billion pounds from the same month in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

A spokesperson for Queen's said the university was "operating in a challenging financial environment and has consistently highlighted that the current higher education funding model, and continued budget uncertainty, are unsustainable".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The total budget for the experiment — including AI computing, tokens and wet-lab synthesis — was approximately $200,000, Citrini said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Were going to need a bigger travel budget, and I could use a hundred more satyrs.”

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

She admits current theft levels are unacceptable, but says there is no funding to routinely carry out large-scale operations within current police budgets, set by the Home Office.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Insurers’ loss budgets could even look too large relative to loss trends, leading to more negotiation pressure when policies come up for renewals for next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The prices of many goods and services followed suit, leaving less room in budgets for more frivolous purchases.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

On small things I was thrifty enough; no expenditures on “carousing,” flashy clothes, or any of the other indulgences that are often smugly believed to undermine the budgets of the poor.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Earlier this year, Freddie Mac announced that, for mortgages with applications received on or after Jan. 4, 2027, the minimum replacement-reserve allocation will rise to 15% from 10% of annual budgeted assessment income.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Current estimates indicate that the second correction and orbital insertion should both require less fuel than originally budgeted.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Speaker Day featured two speakers—usually small-time celebrities or small-time politicians or small-time academics, the kind of people who would come and speak at a school for the measly three hundred bucks the school budgeted.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

“Renault management has clearly done a much better budgeting and execution job than investors expected.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

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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