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outgo

[out-goh] / ˈaʊtˌgoʊ /






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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

Data for commodities funds showed, gold and precious metal funds recorded a sixth weekly outflow, valued at $382 million, while energy funds had a marginal outgo of $48 million.

From Reuters Aug. 5, 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

It was not the outgo that counted, but the receipts.

From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

"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

This thirty years' war against high prices, this perpetual study of economics, this life-long attempt to keep the outgoes less than the income, exhausts millions of housekeepers.

From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

But to be more particular, for it is complained that Mr. Coleman has reported chiefly the expensive experiments of gentlemen farmers, my outgoes were,— For a hoe...................................

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

He never questioned pecuniary outgoes —seldom worried as to the state of his bank-account so long as there was plenty.

From Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907 by Albert Bigelow Paine

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 Samuel Johnson

And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.

From Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark by

And the people saw them going, and many knew them, and they ran together there on foot from all the cities, and outwent them.

From His Life A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels by William Eleazar Barton

And he unknit the peace-strings from about Boardcleaver, and drew him forth so that a clear humming noise went forth into the sunlit air, and spurred on so hard that he outwent every man there.

From The Sundering Flood by May Morris

The cutter Was as another Nature, dumb; outwent her, Motion and breath left out.

From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

His religious sympathies, however, outwent all sectarian limits.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe

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

Britons, ever pre-eminent in mercy, have outgone common examples, and overlooked the criminal in the captive.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau

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

For me, while some of my friends have thought me exacting, I may say Ossoli has always outgone my expectations in the disinterestedness, the uncompromising bounty, of his every act.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

The outgone tenant's bedsteads and wash-hand-stands are piled up against the wall as if crying to Heaven for vengeance against the oppressor.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker

Karoline Leavitt, the president’s outgoing White House press secretary, said the United States has “more than enough firepower” to carry out any operation the president wishes to order.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

And in the Washington state race to replace outgoing Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse, Amanda McKinney, the president's pick, also finished first.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

The couple formed part of a 99-strong group of guerrillas who struck a deal with outgoing President Gustavo Petro to disband two months ago.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

The company’s shares had been under pressure after Julie Masino, the outgoing chief executive, alienated some core customers and conservatives by changing the folksy logo and the menu.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Friendliness, simple outgoing affection, that was all I could hear in his voice.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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