shoestring
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Over the past five years, Tartt, Bandy and a shoestring staff have trained some 60 people on farming the mountain valleys.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
That’s where you get the skinny jeans and the shoestring for a belt, the grunge-style backpack, wearing beanies.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
Corman, affectionately known as the “Pope of Pop Cinema,” was a god of low-budget horror, a maestro who could turn a shoestring budget into something glittering, gothic, and gloriously unhinged.
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025
"It was all done on a shoestring budget," he said.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025
Bingham had never before sold to an individual company, let alone a shoestring operation on Sheriff Street.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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