surplus
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Malaysia’s merchandise trade surplus is expected to have widened in July, Barclays analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Having a surplus in your cash reserves after all that is actually a pretty good outcome.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 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
That would trim the inventory surplus over the five-year average to 192 Bcf from 195 Bcf the previous week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I could hear him rooting in his army surplus duffel bag.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
The trade surplus was supported by falling energy imports as oil prices cooled, alongside larger surpluses in chemicals, machinery and vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The country has now racked up surpluses four straight months, following May’s downwardly revised C$3.7 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
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
Writing was never developed or even adopted by hunter-gatherer societies, because they lacked both the institutional uses of early writing and the social and agricultural mechanisms for generating the food surpluses required to feed scribes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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