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budget

[buhj-it] / ˈbʌdʒ ɪt /




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Travelling to Japan isn't cheap - return off-peak flights with a layover in China start at about £450 with a budget airline.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

In the past, Newsom has been reluctant to greenlight laws that tinker with the state budget after those fiscal discussions conclude in the first half of the calendar year.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

The 75-minute drama was made with a budget of $2,000 without a cast or a crew, and was the first fully AI-generated film accepted at the Tribeca Film Festival.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Under the Plaza Accord, the U.S. and its allies combined joint intervention to push the dollar down against the West German and Japanese currencies with domestic reforms, such as a narrower U.S. budget deficit.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

“We’ll work out a budget and stick to it.”

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Unlike the federal government, states generally must balance their budgets annually.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

Many authorities said digital reform would help to balance future budgets, but warned technology alone would not solve wider funding pressures.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Wars, the bursting of the dot-com bubble and tax cuts sent budgets off course in the early 2000s.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

That makes family budgets even tighter going into the new school year.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Each of these programs went years past their original delivery deadlines and cost far more than originally budgeted.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

Peru’s Congress has already budgeted $2.8 billion for infrastructure preparedness and emergency aid to handle what is forecast to be one of the worst weather events in the country in decades.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

This summer her budget is £500, and she sits down with her children to discuss how much they have budgeted and to brainstorm activities they can do together.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

“If the answers are honest and you can afford it without destabilizing yourself, have the best time and go! Don’t let anyone guilt you out of joy you’ve budgeted for,” she told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Jun. 12, 2026

At McMillan’s suggestion, Lawrence shrank his proposal to a 6-billion-volt machine budgeted at just under $10 million.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Her successors have tried to rebuild investors’ trust by sticking to strict budgeting rules, but investors remain anxious about the U.K.’s debt path.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

He served from 2008 to 2014 as Mr. Putin’s deputy minister of economic development, overseeing forecasting, strategic planning and budgeting.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

This is where you really need to have a handle on your functional budgeting in retirement.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

The report also identified gaps in financial and budgeting knowledge among district leaders and school board members.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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