shoestring
Example Sentences
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For a while, it relied on a shoestring team that included two analysts, an economist, a director of research and a risk manager.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"Back in the day, it was difficult because you're working on a shoestring budget, trying to make things happen," says Painter.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
BATTAMBANG, Cambodia—Giving tiny loans to shoestring entrepreneurs was meant to be capitalism’s cure for global poverty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Rather, he’s using a shoestring budget to concoct left-of-center sights that feel like a peek into a specific Los Angeles netherworld.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Although funds for chemical control came in never-ending streams, the biologists of the Illinois Natural History Survey who attempted to measure the damage to wildlife had to operate on a financial shoestring.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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