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The 2026 budget does not include across-the-board raises for employees, Niemeyer said, but department heads could reorganize or reduce their budgets to allocate raises for their employees. Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025 As is the case with almost all country-specific duties Trump has enacted, sectoral tariffs — such as the 50% across-the-board tariff on steel and aluminum, as well as others he’s threatened — won’t be stacked. Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025 The actors were across-the-board great, including some excellent new additions in Kaitlyn Dever, Catherine O’Hara, and Jeffrey Wright. Joe Reid, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2025 Kirkmeyer and Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, the top Republican in the House, have said Polis should’ve immediately instituted across-the-board budget cuts using his own statutory authority, without having to call lawmakers back early. Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for across-the-board
Recent Examples of Synonyms for across-the-board
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  • The general guideline is for healthy adults to get 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity per week, along with at least two days of strength training and activities to improve balance.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Expecting heavy rain, Joey, a general contractor and project manager, decided to work from home.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
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  • ByteDance will be allowed to keep just under 20% and current investors will account for an overall 35%.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
  • That category accounts for 50% of each NBA team’s overall Future Power Rating, the 0-100 score each team receives to determine its overall ranking.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • Aluminum tariffs also could impact generic drugmakers because many pill products have a foil package.
    Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • For all of its applaudable deep research, the show is at once painstakingly specific in its references and somewhat generic in its beats.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In a year when the question of universal freedom still feels contested, The Gettin’ lands as both memorial and mirror, recalling the losses named in 2014 and 2020 and implicating the present tense.
    Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Exploring the bonds between fathers and sons through the lens of inter-generational healing and forgiveness, The Heart is a Muscle draws on experiences specific to South Africa’s Cape Flats neighborhood which also speak to the universal search for reconciliation and belonging.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Side quests are a bit same-y, which is a common problem in action games.
    Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Looking at reviews left on Google and Yelp, one of the most common comments is a reaction to the cook of the meat on the burger.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The table below breaks down the comparisons by category, in necessarily broad strokes.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The push to adopt the rules is part of a broad effort to roll back federal housing programs under the current administration.
    Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 29 Sep. 2025

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