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Recent Examples of belt-tightening
Kane County has been on a belt-tightening budget for many years.
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Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
This marks a shift away from the belt-tightening policies that have been in place since 2010 and toward economic stimulus.
—Yun Sun, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2025
This unease may lead to cautious hiring practices and belt-tightening measures, such as potential layoffs, particularly in sectors undergoing digital transformation.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
This marks a shift away from the belt-tightening policies that have been in place since 2010 and toward economic stimulus.
—Yun Sun, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2025
This unease may lead to cautious hiring practices and belt-tightening measures, such as potential layoffs, particularly in sectors undergoing digital transformation.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for belt-tightening
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
Noun
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That’s how transit used to work in Chicago too, before austerity dwindled capacity to a focus on commuters.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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But the value of these grants has plummeted since 2010, when the former Conservative government embarked on a decade of austerity designed to shrink the country’s debts following the financial crisis.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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POWs received little mail, and suffered severe deprivation and torture, making objects from home all the more valuable.—
Made by History,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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While the app does have a disclaimer telling users to treat the chatbots as fictional characters, the ability to chat with a bot 24/7 is troubling, for many reasons, including contributing to sleep deprivation and isolation.—
Brooke Lieberman,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Apr. 2025
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Out of the privation, the challenge, and the censure of slavery and the unfulfilled promise of post-Reconstruction justice, Black musicians embraced experimentation and innovation, ingenuity and joy, and a multigenerational call and response speaking truth to power that endures to the present day.—
Elizabeth Alexander,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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As a prisoner of war, Morris R. Wills faced a gamut of privations—he was left malnourished and consigned to filthy conditions amid the ever-present threat of execution.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Some of his misery has resulted from brilliant deflections or bad bounces off of his defencemen, but Hellebuyck is responsible for enough of his problems to earn the unwanted attention.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Strangling the dog to put it out of its misery could be seen as both an act of cruelty and an act of generosity, and that contradiction is interesting.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2025
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Like every other era since Israel’s birth in 1948, there are always immediate exigencies.—
JTA Staff Report,
Sun Sentinel,
5 May 2025
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There are economic exigencies to putting up a show on Broadway and keeping it running.—
Rebecca Milzoff,
Billboard,
2 May 2025
Noun
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Define what qualifies as an emergency When you’re caught up in a work issue, solving it feels urgent.—
Melody Wilding,
CNBC,
30 Apr. 2025
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Mom may have suffered a ‘medical emergency’ According to Collier, from the sheriff’s office, Crystal Hall Njepu and the children were in the vehicle traveling westbound on Market Street when the car drifted into the north side of the roadway.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 14 May. 2025.
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