budget
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The Legislature this year passed a budget that called for the state to shut at least one more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
"It feels like a miracle for this film with a tiny budget and a hope and a prayer, to be on the big screen."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
They pour in on hulking cruise ships, rowdy budget airline flights and tour buses run by vacation-package companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Roksolana Pidlasa, the head of the budget committee in Ukraine's parliament, described a bleak outlook.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Maybe he can even help with the family budget.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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"Higher energy and fuel prices are likely to place further pressure on household budgets, while elevated mortgage rates will continue to weigh on housing activity and wider consumer spending."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
BofA Securities says investor and corporate interest in quantum computing is surging as government funding, technological breakthroughs, and rising budgets push the technology closer to commercialization.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Home-insurance premiums hit a record high in June, dialing up the heat on homeowners’ budgets across America.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
My friend Arran budgets $200 monthly for his two cats, Chaplin and Mila.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Requests for money for wildlife- insecticide research were included in annual budgets submitted to the Illinois legislature by the Natural History Survey, but were invariably among the first items to be eliminated.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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The process: They had initially budgeted for homes around $530,000 in the suburb, which is about 40 miles north of Seattle.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Compare that with how much is actually being budgeted for reserves each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The cost of these two clearances alone has been budgeted at £20m by the Environment Agency - although the Kidlington project has come in under the original £7.3m contract.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Each of these programs went years past their original delivery deadlines and cost far more than originally budgeted.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Fadi looked at his budgeted options—cheeseburger minis with French fries or something called a “bean and cheese burrito.”
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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They have cut out family trips and started meal-planning and budgeting to save money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
“In terms of retirement budgeting, it’s one of the top categories retirees do not budget for because people don’t think much about it,” Conti said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
Universities offer a range of practical and wellbeing services, including budgeting advice, financial support, counselling and study support sessions.
From BBC ● 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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