straitened
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A new element in some recent stories is the assertion that the wealthy are so financially straitened they’re cutting back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
But merchants and analysts said the dollarization boost has proven insufficient in the face of limited credit, a depreciating local currency, higher taxes, straitened public spending amid lower oil income, and rising utility bills.
From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2023
Indeed, the fans are only now starting to get used to the USA's new straitened circumstances.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2023
Accepting that award, Sir the Baptist, one of the album’s producers, addressed the straitened finances of historically Black colleges and universities.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
Below-decks, we formed as best we could in straitened space and umbrageous darkness.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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