outgo
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Our outgo is a small fraction of these figures.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
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
Investors jettisoned taxable bond funds worth $10.25 billion marking the largest outflow since Feb. 16, while municipal funds recorded capital outgo of $4.39 billion.
From Reuters ● Apr. 18, 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
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
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
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
My whole income from the farm was $ 23.44 Deducting the outgoes............
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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
It was not so in the sixteenth, when Italy hardly yet fell behind, and Spain and England far outwent her: nor, according to any just estimate, in the seventeenth.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
Indeed, we cannot say that at all points Shakspere outwent his guide.
From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
By his marriages Home far outwent such famous charlatans as Cagliostro, Mesmer, and the mysterious Saint Germain the deathless.
From Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang
But the ardor of his mind was such that he outwent his authors.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
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
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
Nickleby's success had so far outgone even the expectation raised by Pickwick's, that, without some handsome practical admission of this fact at the close, its publishers could hardly hope to retain him.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
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
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
He is now running for state assembly in the district against an outgoing council member, Republican Gracey Van Der Mark, who led the effort to restrict books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The outgoing secretary-general, Antonio Guterres of Portugal, ends his second five-year term on December 31, 2026.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Exit polls conducted by Manx Radio predict seven outgoing MHKs will lose their seats, three of whom are current members of the Council of Ministers.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The state’s outgoing U.S. senator, Republican John Cornyn, was also quick to denounce French.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
His classmates found him outgoing, freewheeling, handy with a joke, and fun to be around.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
