surplus
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The Californian wanted to showcase his accomplishments: tax cuts, a budget surplus, prison reform, housing, pension reform, gasoline taxes, highway expansions, new hospitals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
India's merchandise trade surplus with the US narrowed to $18.48bn from $20.07bn a year earlier.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Secondly, the tech sector overall is running a financing surplus of around $400 billion this year because cash flows are exceeding capex.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
This surplus of opulence is what gives the film its edge, too.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
The farmer can take any surplus to market and sell or trade it.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
But elsewhere, China's soaring surpluses are increasingly stoking tensions with key trading partners, including the European Union and the United States.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
It’s worth noting that with the boom in commodity prices in 2026 Brazil is posting massive trade surpluses every month.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
China’s enormous trade surpluses have led to calls for joint action to raise its currency, the yuan, akin to 1985’s Plaza Accord, which boosted an undervalued Japanese yen in order to reduce Japan’s trade surpluses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
But soaring surpluses with several key trading partners has also become a political issue, as officials overseas argue that waves of Chinese imports are crowding out local competition.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Since as hunter-gatherers they did not produce crop surpluses available for redistribution or storage, they could not support and feed nonhunting craft specialists, armies, bureaucrats, and chiefs.
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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