outgo
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Our outgo is a small fraction of these figures.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
Commodities funds' data showed precious metal funds suffered outflows of $354 million in a ninth straight week of net selling, while energy funds had a second weekly outgo, although a marginal $5 million.
From Reuters ● Aug. 26, 2022
According to Refinitiv Lipper, investors offloaded global equity funds worth a net $15.21 billion in the reported week, which was the biggest weekly money outgo since Dec 15.
From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 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
The profession of motherhood is such a creative one, and demands so constant an outgo of unselfish sympathy, that a mother's technic as silent partner is usually kept in a highly efficient state.
From The Joyful Heart by Schauffler, Robert Haven
"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
Come, shall we in, And taste Lord Timon's bounty? he outgoes The very heart of kindness.
From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William
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 Howells, William Dean
My outgoes and incomes have for a long time been involved with each other.
From The Morgesons by Stoddard, Elizabeth
But to be more particular, for it is complained that Mr. Coleman has reported chiefly the expensive experiments of gentlemen farmers, my outgoes were,— For a hoe...................................
From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
But the ardor of his mind was such that he outwent his authors.
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
It was not so in the sixteenth, when Italy hardly yet fell behind, and Spain and England far outwent her: nor, according to any just estimate, in the seventeenth.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
Mr. Smith's character grew upon his friends by intimacy, and outwent the strongest prepossessions which had been conceived in his favour.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
Lilly's Memoirs" we have the following account of him:— "Kelly outwent the Doctor—viz., about the elixir and philosopher's stone, which neither he nor his master attained by their own labour and industry.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John
This brave old lady's idea of Toleration outwent even Burton's, and corresponded more with that absolute idea of Toleration which had been worked out among the Baptists.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David
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
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For me, while some of my friends have thought me exacting, I may say Ossoli has always outgone my expectations in the disinterestedness, the uncompromising bounty, of his every act.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret
In his 'Ode on St. Cecilia's Day' Pope is generally confessed to have miscarried; yet he has miscarried only as compared with Dryden, for he has far outgone other competitors.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
And now for some reflections upon popes, cardinals, and bishops, who in pomp and splendour have almost equalled if not outgone secular princes.
From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Erasmus, Desiderius
Of his Moses she says: "It is the only thing in Europe so far which has entirely outgone my hopes."
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward
The new leader takes over from the unpopular Keir Starmer just two years after the outgoing prime minister led Labour to power in a landslide election victory after 14 years of Conservative rule.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Ironically, Sir Keir Starmer had also embraced the dress-down spirit of his successor, with the outgoing PM sometimes seen in tracksuits, a Stone Island polo shirt, and Adidas trainers.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
She was outgoing and active and enjoyed surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and volunteering at a farm once a week, Walker said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
In high school, I was outgoing but not interested in being popular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
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