budgeted

Example Sentences

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While some fans were lucky enough to nab $28 tickets, others begrudgingly spent more than they budgeted.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Mejia has been critical of the city’s spending on homelessness, citing an instance in which half the money budgeted to address the issue went unspent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

They would have budgeted for lower rates, and expectations of those rates potentially falling further, but that was upended by the economic impact of the Iran war.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The payouts, a key source of tax revenue, were well short of what New York City officials had budgeted for.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Speaker Day featured two speakers—usually small-time celebrities or small-time politicians or small-time academics, the kind of people who would come and speak at a school for the measly three hundred bucks the school budgeted.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green