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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

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

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

There was nobody in the country who could outgo him on a hunt.

From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

"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

The Indies have not made Spain rich; because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.

From One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by Bogardus, C. A.

Any return from his products beyond enough to meet these outgoes he will consider profits.

From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson

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

The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.”

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

If he found himself mistaken, he could not humble himself enough,—but far outwent, in his contrition, what was due to those whom he had offended.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

The zest, the fun, the excitement Sigurd infused into our human humdrum outwent all expectation.

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee

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 Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

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 Johnson, Samuel

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

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

But I have outgone my destiny in living, to stay here the survivor of my child.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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 Fuller, Margaret

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)

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 Saintsbury, George

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

“We are heartbroken and devastated by the loss of Ashley. ... She was adventurous, outgoing, smart and driven, never letting obstacles get in her way,” the family’s statement read in part.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

“I get a bit anxious before approaching someone, but once I get into an activity, I get comfortable with the people doing that thing and I become a very outgoing person.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Researchers can control the direction of the outgoing beam by changing the phase of the light sent to each antenna.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

They were good-natured, outgoing, and respectful, and they always rose to the high standards their parents had set for them.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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