austerity
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Touring companies and venues have faced increased costs and decreased income, while existing challenges have been "accelerated and exacerbated by the pandemic and funding austerity", it said.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
What bankers appear to be calling for is not stimulus or austerity but balance.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
Continued disruption would have worsened fuel supplies, driven up prices and forced further austerity measures for the cash-strapped government.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
When austerity later gutted treatment funding, outcomes reversed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
And now she wept, after her long austerity, as though she would never be able to stop.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing austerity
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