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budget

[buhj-it] / ˈbʌdʒ ɪt /




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Its renovation ran 81% over its original budget.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

French bond yields surged close to debt-crisis levels last week following a poorly-received budget, compounding unease among investors that political gridlock could keep the country locked in a debt spiral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

E-Day was widely expected to follow other high budget series such as Halo on to other companies' machines.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The Fire Department already has a budget nearing $1 billion and the tax is expected to generate another $345 million annually to the department that has long said it is woefully underfunded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

It seems silly to give someone a gift in July that’s wrapped in holiday paper, but it’s all there is and I’ve spent my candy and records budget on the fabric, buttons, and zipper.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

Years of rising living and college costs have left many with little room in their budgets.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Every year, when laying out each entity’s budgets, officials make projections about how income, and thus taxes, will fare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The i says a "blunder over funding teacher pay rises" means school budgets are "set for squeeze".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Skills managing schedules, budgets and a team of people are appealing, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

On small things I was thrifty enough; no expenditures on “carousing,” flashy clothes, or any of the other indulgences that are often smugly believed to undermine the budgets of the poor.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Current estimates indicate that the second correction and orbital insertion should both require less fuel than originally budgeted.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The process: They had initially budgeted for homes around $530,000 in the suburb, which is about 40 miles north of Seattle.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

The cost of these two clearances alone has been budgeted at £20m by the Environment Agency - although the Kidlington project has come in under the original £7.3m contract.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Each of these programs went years past their original delivery deadlines and cost far more than originally budgeted.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

Fadi looked at his budgeted options—cheeseburger minis with French fries or something called a “bean and cheese burrito.”

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Adam Auriemma on budgeting, renting versus buying, investments, financial advisors, and more!

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

Cruise was on board after their initial meeting in 2018, but budgeting and schedules delayed the project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

A long-term infrastructure plan administered with two-year budgeting “sets clear priorities, identifies the projects that need to get done, and plans how to fund them over time,” proponents said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Topics like budgeting and investing weren’t discussed at home when Wilson was growing up.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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