carry over
Example Sentences
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"The increase registered in the CPI during August will generate a carry-over effect," said Eugenio Mari, Chief Economist at the Libertad y Progreso Foundation.
From Reuters • Sep. 11, 2023
Logically, this carry-over makes no sense; but it happened anyway.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2023
“Honestly, from the first day until now the quality of basketball has improved. They have retained what we’re giving them. There’s a direct carry-over from drills and practices to the games.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022
Ms. Rouleau offered a hypothetical example to illustrate how the more generous carry-over rules could have affected a worker with a Dec. 31 spending deadline.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2022
We said all this in my kitchen, drinking coffee, sitting at my kitchen table, in those low, intense voices we used for such arguments when we were in our early twenties; a carry-over from college.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
