quota

Example Sentences

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An editorial in the student newspaper proclaimed the cap a “crude” quota.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Berkshire will participate in a quota share with Tokio Marine, absorbing some of the risk in the company’s insurance portfolio.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Then at the end of 2024, Germany announced that it would increase the skilled work visa quota for Indian citizens from 20,000 per year to 90,000.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

Money is why Smoke and Stack flee Chicago to hide down South and why Miles Caton’s Sammie wakes up at dawn to pick his daily quota of cotton.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

It was better than sticking one kid with the entire quota, wasn’t it?

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier