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Recent Examples of belt-tightening
Nexstar Media Group, which has been trimming staff at The CW in recent months, plans to expand those belt-tightening efforts by cutting 2% of its total workforce.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
Budget tightening After years of surplus revenues, Tennessee is likely due for some belt-tightening amid a string of underperforming months.
—Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 8 Jan. 2024
But the looming threat of a debt crisis and the absence of viable new financing alternatives have encouraged some countries to take preventive belt-tightening measures.
—Shantayanan Devarajan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2022
The company announced a series of belt-tightening measures and production delays on Friday, as the strike of 33,000 workers has added to Boeing’s litany of problems.
—Elodie Mazein, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
Budget tightening After years of surplus revenues, Tennessee is likely due for some belt-tightening amid a string of underperforming months.
—Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 8 Jan. 2024
But the looming threat of a debt crisis and the absence of viable new financing alternatives have encouraged some countries to take preventive belt-tightening measures.
—Shantayanan Devarajan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2022
The company announced a series of belt-tightening measures and production delays on Friday, as the strike of 33,000 workers has added to Boeing’s litany of problems.
—Elodie Mazein, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
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The program was canceled by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as part of his broad austerity measures.—
Whitney Eulich,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Jan. 2025
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Medicaid directors have been bracing for austerity moves.—
Maya Goldman,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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Miguel Hidalgo, 34, was charged with one count of deprivation of rights under color of law in connection with the assault at FCC Coleman in Sumter County in August 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida said in a Jan. 30 news release.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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Research shows that even a single night of sleep deprivation can increase hunger-promoting hormones and the desire for highly palatable foods, like sweets.13 Experts recommend that adults get at least seven hours of sleep per night for optimal health.14 5.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
27 Jan. 2025
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Economic privation could further encourage violent competition between Syrian armed groups over territory and revenues.—
Sam Heller,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2024
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But envisioning the privation that followed, with Panguna shut down, requires little imagination.—
Sean Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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Isn’t a life without mountains of money better than a life monopolized by misery?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
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The act led to retaliatory tariffs by other countries and is widely seen as exacerbating the economic misery of the Depression.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2025
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In addition, institutions that reduce or close a program, department, college, or position because of a reinvestment plan would be able to proceed with policies and procedures associated with a declaration of financial exigency.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes,
3 Feb. 2025
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However likely the Government’s success on the merits may be, in my view, emergency relief is not appropriate because the applicant has failed to demonstrate sufficient exigency to justify our intervention.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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France called an emergency meeting of European Union countries and the U.K. on Monday to decide how to address the U.S. diplomatic blitz on the war.—
Matthew Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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Overseas, top officials from the United States and Russia were set to hold talks in Saudi Arabia about ending Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine -- without Volodymyr Zelenskyy -- while European officials were holding an emergency meeting in Paris.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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