outgo
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Our outgo is a small fraction of these figures.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
Meanwhile, growth funds witnessed about $1.95 billion worth of net outgo.
From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2023
U.S. growth funds faced massive outflows for a third consecutive week, amounting $5.13 billion, while value funds had about $2 billion worth of net outgo.
From Reuters ● Apr. 29, 2022
The federal budget is a very detailed estimate of receipts and expenditures, an anticipation of federal income and outgo, during the next fiscal year.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
This continual process of cellular death and birth, the income and outgo of cells, that follow each other like the waves of the sea, each different yet each the same, is metamorphosis of tissue.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
"States need to contain and rationalise their subsidy outgoes, so that such spending does not crowd out more productive expenditure."
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
Why," she said, "I suppose that some old-fashioned people still do their marketing, and people that have to look to their outgoes, and know what every mouthful costs them.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by William Dean Howells
Here, as well as every where else, desire outgoes gratification.
From A Voyage to the Moon by George Tucker
The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
My whole income from the farm was $ 23.44 Deducting the outgoes............
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
If he found himself mistaken, he could not humble himself enough,—but far outwent, in his contrition, what was due to those whom he had offended.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
According to Baillie, also, the Baptists outwent even the Brownists in the power in church matters they gave to women.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
By his marriages Home far outwent such famous charlatans as Cagliostro, Mesmer, and the mysterious Saint Germain the deathless.
From Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang
Yes, but all Was vainely labour'd in me; you outwent me, Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little I did by imitation.
From The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Indeed, we cannot say that at all points Shakspere outwent his guide.
From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
As they parted in the riotous dawn, Mario gave Lauro's city soccer team a $200,000 South American soccer player in token of friendship, and the mayor, not to be outgone, promised Mario a yacht.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this, though not arduous, had outgone his ambition, nature having gifted him with a remarkable power of extracting nourishment from food, which is now called assimilation.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
But I have outgone my destiny in living, to stay here the survivor of my child.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Britons, ever pre-eminent in mercy, have outgone common examples, and overlooked the criminal in the captive.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau
Lyly nor any of our late nineteenth-century "stylists" has outgone, perhaps none has touched, Eustathius in euphuism.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
The changing-of-command ceremony was memorable, including 17-gun salutes for each of the outgoing and incoming admirals and a 19-gun salute for my new friend, the CNO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The two candidates will face off in the Nov. 3 election to succeed outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom, and took time to deliver their campaign messages at an afternoon political forum in the state capital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
And in the Washington state race to replace outgoing Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse, Amanda McKinney, the president's pick, also finished first.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The couple formed part of a 99-strong group of guerrillas who struck a deal with outgoing President Gustavo Petro to disband two months ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Maybe I needed security in my own way too, but I was way more outgoing than my sister.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
