outgo
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Our outgo is a small fraction of these figures.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
Data showed commodity funds lost $1.3 billion in outflows in their first weekly net selling in six weeks, with precious metal funds and energy funds recording $527 million and $281 million worth of outgo, respectively.
From Reuters ● Mar. 3, 2023
Commodities funds' data showed precious metal funds suffered outflows of $354 million in a ninth straight week of net selling, while energy funds had a second weekly outgo, although a marginal $5 million.
From Reuters ● Aug. 26, 2022
The federal budget is a very detailed estimate of receipts and expenditures, an anticipation of federal income and outgo, during the next fiscal year.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
The New York Agricultural Experiment Station is carrying on experiments to determine the outgo and income from vineyards in the Chautauqua grape-belt.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
"States need to contain and rationalise their subsidy outgoes, so that such spending does not crowd out more productive expenditure."
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
We should, therefore, have little superfluity in the most favourable seasons; for the farmer, like the rest of mankind, acts in hope of success, and the harvest seldom outgoes the expectation of the spring.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel
For we must finally avow that the pervading thought in the tragedies outgoes the simple artistic needs of the case.
From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
The difference between the first amount and the sum of the two others is profit, and it is never determined in any other way than by subtracting outgoes from a gross income.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates
Why," she said, "I suppose that some old-fashioned people still do their marketing, and people that have to look to their outgoes, and know what every mouthful costs them.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by Howells, William Dean
“Oh, methought this sin was bigger than the sins of a country, of a kingdom, or of the whole world; not all of them together was able to equal mine; mine outwent them every one.”
From The Life of John Bunyan by Venables, Edmund
This brave old lady's idea of Toleration outwent even Burton's, and corresponded more with that absolute idea of Toleration which had been worked out among the Baptists.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David
As a bird that had been frighted from its nest, my affections outwent my haste, and hovered round my little fireside with all the rapture of expectation.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by Black, William
The worst of it for these girls was that their likeness to one another outwent that of ordinary twinship.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
His religious sympathies, however, outwent all sectarian limits.
From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward
As they parted in the riotous dawn, Mario gave Lauro's city soccer team a $200,000 South American soccer player in token of friendship, and the mayor, not to be outgone, promised Mario a yacht.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But this, though not arduous, had outgone his ambition, nature having gifted him with a remarkable power of extracting nourishment from food, which is now called assimilation.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
To a full score; though in so short a span His riper thoughts had purchas'd more of man Than all those worthless livers, which yet quick Have quite outgone their own arithmetic.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
And haply' �neas his time in parley had outgone, Had not then the Sibyl with word of warning avized him.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
Of his Moses she says: "It is the only thing in Europe so far which has entirely outgone my hopes."
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward
In high school, I was outgoing but not interested in being popular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Hinson, the outgoing representative of Florida’s 21st House district, told Salon that Nixon has been a “leading force in protest” against the opposition in the Florida Legislature since she arrived there in 2020.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Perversely, the new legal regime can also give an outgoing president enormous control.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
He said many counties have ordered outgoing and return ballot envelopes for the election to ensure envelopes for more than 23 million California voters are ready to use by the Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
While Jimmie had been very social and outgoing, Jim was a bit bashful, a loner, very quiet, and liked to read.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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