surplus
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The food shops, run by Social Enterprise Kent, redistribute surplus food and offer cut-price groceries.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“In a market where almost every scaled operator is sold out, Meta is a very rare potential merchant seller of surplus capacity,” Mahaney wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Many plans flipped to a surplus for the first time in over a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The data centres "can be an engine to digest or absorb the surplus of renewable power generation", said Deng.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
“A major manufacturer of androids,” he said thoughtfully, “invests its surplus capital on living animals.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
The Congressional Budget Office in January 2001 predicted such large future budget surpluses that it said all redeemable U.S. government debt could be paid off within five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The rise of excessive current-account deficits and surpluses reflects increasingly unbalanced growth dynamics in China, the European Union and the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Because Jamaica ran sizable primary fiscal surpluses for more than a decade, halving its government debt-to-GDP ratio from 140% in 2012 to 62% in 2024.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Prabowo himself has come under fire over the programme, especially for its hefty price tag at a time when Indonesia is grappling with dwindling trade surpluses and a weak currency.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
With the crop surpluses that they could grow and store, they fed craft specialists, chiefs, and part-time soldiers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The city has been prioritizing the use of surplused land for “low-income housing” for several years.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Next he built a telecom infrastructure company — MK Global — that ”secured the rights to a $1 billion in equipment surplused in the wake of the dot-com crash.”
From Forbes ● Sep. 19, 2011
Consequently the neighborhood was notified that a sacred concert by a "surplused choir" composed of members of the Jenkins household, assisted by a few of their schoolmates, would be given a week from Wednesday night.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
He couldn't look like that surplused boy, though.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
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