surplus
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Japan runs the biggest current account surplus in the whole G-7 which should, in theory, be supportive of the currency.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Skubal joins Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani as postseason rotation options, creating an enviable surplus if all five are healthy in October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Japan runs the biggest current account surplus in the G-7 — which should, in theory, be supportive of the currency.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
While North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance agency built a $1.2 billion surplus, its payouts for lost wages and medical benefits declined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
We had certainly done our parts in chomping through the corn surplus.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
Canada has now racked up trade surpluses two months this year, after a C$1.75 billion surplus in March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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
China’s massive trade surpluses are often attributed to chronically weak domestic demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Briefly, at high population densities only a portion of the people came to be farmers, but they were mobilized to devote themselves to intensive food production, thereby yielding surpluses to feed nonproducers.
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 Maniates, Belle Kanaris
He couldn't look like that surplused boy, though.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Maniates, Belle Kanaris
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