as in fiscal
of or relating to money, banking, or investments
the financial world was watching the stock market closely
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Recent Examples of financial
Job losses have been reported in recent years in the real estate sector, among civil servants, and the financial sector.
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2025
And there are no longer Red Lobster locations in North Texas after the final ones closed last year amid the chain's financial struggles.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
And so making Beijing happy is going to accrue to the financial benefit of Elon Musk and many billionaires who outsource work to China.
—ABC News, 9 Feb. 2025
The big picture: Donald Trump's second week in office included a surprise federal funding freeze Tuesday that prompted nationwide confusion and a shifting timeline on tariffs across U.S. imports from Canada, Mexico and China set for a Feb. 1 rollout, creating whiplash in financial markets Friday.
—Axios, 8 Feb. 2025
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2025
And there are no longer Red Lobster locations in North Texas after the final ones closed last year amid the chain's financial struggles.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
And so making Beijing happy is going to accrue to the financial benefit of Elon Musk and many billionaires who outsource work to China.
—ABC News, 9 Feb. 2025
The big picture: Donald Trump's second week in office included a surprise federal funding freeze Tuesday that prompted nationwide confusion and a shifting timeline on tariffs across U.S. imports from Canada, Mexico and China set for a Feb. 1 rollout, creating whiplash in financial markets Friday.
—Axios, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for financial
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The project to build a bullet train from Los Angeles to Sacramento is an outrageous example of a public work that lacked any fiscal responsibility or oversight from the state government.—
Jon Coupal,
Orange County Register,
15 Feb. 2025
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The university is the region’s largest beneficiary of funding from the National Institutes of Health, the agency at the center of the fiscal fight.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Feb. 2025
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The offer was intended to spur Black American economic prosperity post-Civil War.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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Goller acknowledged China was unlikely to return to the explosive economic growth that first attracted foreign carmakers to flood into the country.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
10 Feb. 2025
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With inflation on their minds, investors will be eager to get a glimpse of the Fed's thinking when minutes from the last monetary policy meeting are released on Wednesday.—
Medora Lee,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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The Central Bank's governor, Elvira Nabiullina, said separately that monetary tightening will cool the economy and that growth over the next three years would be in line with its forecast in October.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Financial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/financial. Accessed 24 Feb. 2025.
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