deficit
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He looked the one driver able to threaten Norris for raw pace, but his afternoon unravelled even before Antonelli's, when he spun exiting the pits and turned a 1.2-second deficit to the McLaren into 20.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Jovany Barragan’s second field goal — a 35-yarder on an untimed down — cut Serra’s deficit to 21-6 at halftime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
The budget deficit is expected to reach 4.4% of GDP this year, compared with a surplus of 0.6% in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Plus, the U.S. goods-trade deficit contracted in September, and ocean carrier Maersk raised its full-year guidance on higher rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The deficit in the Bristol Township schools came to a whopping $603 per student.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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"This is the first time it's been demonstrated that deficits in the peripheral nervous system can arise directly from these mutations," Hickman says.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026
Across the rich world, budget deficits are projected to average 5.2% of GDP this year, up from 2.6% a decade earlier, according to International Monetary Fund data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
But particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, American politicians started losing their sense of shame about deficits, argues Joseph Thorndike, an American historian of tax and fiscal policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
As servicing debt grows more expensive, Brazil is caught in a cycle of rising deficits and borrowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Giving himself repeated daily shots of canine insulin in the abdomen, arm, or leg, Woolf almost certainly spent his days boomeranging between insulin gluts and deficits.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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