outgo
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Our outgo is a small fraction of these figures.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
Among sector funds, utilities and energy funds lured inflows worth $498 million and $332 million respectively, but tech and consumer staples saw outgo of $785 million and $571 million respectively.
From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2022
According to Refinitiv Lipper, investors offloaded global equity funds worth a net $15.21 billion in the reported week, which was the biggest weekly money outgo since Dec 15.
From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 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
I had to wander around that tank town for hours, keeping a blanket-watch on the post office for either the income or the outgo of my precious hunk of mail.
From Highways in Hiding by George Oliver Smith
"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
My farm outgoes for the first season were, for implements, seed, work, etc., $14.72-1/2.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
The Indies have not made Spain rich because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
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 William Dean Howells
The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.'
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
But being much given up to women, and an idle habit of life, his expenses quickly outwent his profits, and thus in the space of some months reduced him to downright want.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
Mr. Smith's character grew upon his friends by intimacy, and outwent the strongest prepossessions which had been conceived in his favour.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
Yes, but all Was vainely labour'd in me; you outwent me, Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little I did by imitation.
From The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
A troop of infantry, whose dapper costume outwent itself in the last touch of bright green gloves, dazzled by, and then came a miscellany of maskers.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
And the people saw them going, and many knew them, and they ran there together on foot from all the cities, and outwent them.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
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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Damaris gazed upon him with brown, incredulous eyes, and when she spoke her words came somewhat breathlessly, having quite outgone the courtly affectation of similes run mad.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
Lyly nor any of our late nineteenth-century "stylists" has outgone, perhaps none has touched, Eustathius in euphuism.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
This downright fighting fool, this thick-skulled hero, This blunt, unthinking instrument of death, With plain dull virtue has outgone my wit.
From All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy by John Dryden
And now for some reflections upon popes, cardinals, and bishops, who in pomp and splendour have almost equalled if not outgone secular princes.
From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus
That’s a problem for the outgoing Congress, before the newly elected members are sworn in next year.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Before parliamentary elections that year, the outgoing centrist majority in the chamber appointed five judges to the tribunal.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
"She's funny, outgoing, just a beautiful wee girl – but when something like this happens she goes in on herself and hunkers down," Laura told BBC Scotland News.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Villalobos met him thinking the 14-year-old prodigy he was trying to recruit to his agency would have the same outgoing personality off the court that he did on it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
He was very outgoing, using any excuse to start a chat.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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