surplus
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After the 1984 Olympics helped fund youth sports in L.A. for decades with a $230-million surplus, the 2028 Games have already jump-started adaptive sports opportunities as part of the PlayLA program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The 21-nation currency area’s trade surplus in goods was 1.8 billion euros in June, or $2.08 billion, from a deficit of 6.1 billion euros in May, statistics agency Eurostat said Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The organizing committee is obligated to create a $270-million contingency fund that can be distributed as a surplus if the Games make money or cover any losses in the event of a shortfall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Having a surplus in your cash reserves after all that is actually a pretty good outcome.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Everybody had begun to look alike, dressed in surplus War Department clothing—pea coats, knit caps, canvas leggings, army earmuffs, and wool khaki pants.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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
Deficits and surpluses will be on the agenda at next week’s G-7 meeting in the French Alps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
Plus, he said the administration has signaled that the countries with larger trade surpluses with the U.S.—China falls into that category—will have higher tariffs.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
But the extra mouths quickly wiped out the food surpluses, so even more fields had to be planted.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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
He couldn't look like that surplused boy, though.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
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
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