discretionary
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Rising living costs threaten discretionary spending by Dollar Tree and Dollar General’s core customers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Find out your essential spending versus your discretionary spending. See what you can cut out and what has to be there.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
That debt raise helps explain how Nvidia funded discretionary buybacks after strategic investments and spending tied to stock-based pay absorbed so much cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Graham Capital manages around $23 billion in total assets, split roughly evenly between systematic and discretionary strategies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
The job was full of discretionary power and the decisions about how to use it were often moral.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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