budgeting

Example Sentences

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Token spending was a focus during Affirm’s annual budgeting process, which wrapped up last month, said Rob O’Hare, the company’s finance chief.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The sacking of Dadan Hindayana, an entomologist, comes a week after Indonesia's corruption watchdog filed a complaint alleging inconsistencies in budgeting across kitchens.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Over time, I’ve realized that grocery budgeting is less about militant restriction and more about paying attention.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

Fad budgeting methods with cute names come and go: zero-based, 50/30/20, envelope, and so forth.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 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