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shortfall

[shawrt-fawl] / ˈʃɔrtˌfɔl /


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The senators calculate that this would cover about 75% of the Social Security’s projected funding shortfall over the next 75 years.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Social Security is at risk of a shortfall, not annihilation.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

Her boss, Chief Executive Jennifer Welsh, explained the projected £800m shortfall in Northern Ireland's health budget meant all trusts had been instructed to find savings that "could be delivered without causing harm to service users".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Central Bank said it took over Ueno due to a severe capital shortfall, in order to "protect depositors and preserve the stability of the financial system."

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

In five weeks, on November 29, the index of subprime mortgage bonds, called the ABX, would post its first interest-rate shortfall.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

In 2024, repeated earnings shortfalls led to a plunging stock price and pressure for change from activist hedge fund Glenview Capital Management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

But as the state faces massive cuts in federal Medicaid funding, rising healthcare costs and budget shortfalls, it has begun to roll back that commitment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The Resolution Foundation estimates that more than 1.1 million low income renters now face shortfalls between their housing benefit and their actual rent, with the gap expected to reach a record high this October.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Like culinary dishes, market crashes require specific ingredients: overstretched valuations, high debt levels and cash shortfalls, high volatility, rising capital costs, contagion vectors and poor shock absorbers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The unemployment caused home foreclosures, leading to shortfalls in property tax receipts, and therefore holes in the school budget.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove


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