surplus
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Imports are projected to have risen 27.3%, resulting in a $27.5 billion trade surplus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Goldman’s economists argue that currency revaluation would complement domestic reforms by sustaining growth as the trade surplus shrinks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The biggest contributor was the energy sector as crude oil prices climbed, while manufacturing industries that are heavily reliant on energy inputs saw a lower operating surplus as costs rose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Half of that number was generated by chip exports as Korea’s trade surplus clocked $14 billion in those three weeks alone.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
We had certainly done our parts in chomping through the corn surplus.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Natural-gas prices have fallen recently, thanks to strong U.S. production and high storage surpluses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Because Jamaica ran sizable primary fiscal surpluses for more than a decade, halving its government debt-to-GDP ratio from 140% in 2012 to 62% in 2024.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The rise of excessive current-account deficits and surpluses reflects increasingly unbalanced growth dynamics in China, the European Union and the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Prabowo himself has come under fire over the programme, especially for its hefty price tag at a time when Indonesia is grappling with dwindling trade surpluses and a weak currency.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
But tribal societies without intensive food production have no employment for slaves and do not produce large enough food surpluses to be able to yield much tribute.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The city has been prioritizing the use of surplused land for “low-income housing” for several years.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Next he built a telecom infrastructure company — MK Global — that ”secured the rights to a $1 billion in equipment surplused in the wake of the dot-com crash.”
From Forbes ● Sep. 19, 2011
Consequently the neighborhood was notified that a sacred concert by a "surplused choir" composed of members of the Jenkins household, assisted by a few of their schoolmates, would be given a week from Wednesday night.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
He couldn't look like that surplused boy, though.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
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