across-the-board
adjective
1
: placed to win if a competitor wins, places, or shows
an across-the-board racing bet
2
: embracing or affecting all classes or categories : blanket
an across-the-board price increase
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Additional problems could arise if the Social Security system isn't shored up before its trust funds are slated to be depleted in 2033, which could lead to across-the-board benefit cuts.
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2024
Trump has floated a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports, a 60% tariff on imports from China and a 100% tariff on foreign cars – including from Mexico.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
Then came an attempt to give the appropriations process teeth by setting an April deadline to pass the full-year spending bills or impose across-the-board cuts.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
Woodford had given a $1 per hour, across-the-board wage increase earlier in the year.
—Bruce Schreiner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
The plans aren’t as sweeping as the across-the-board loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 per borrower that Biden ordered in 2022, a measure the Supreme Court threw out last year.
—Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
There are announcements of across-the-board layoffs at the Beeb, arguments about what does and does not constitute a proper lead story, and enough editorial handwringing to require skin grafts on numerous palms.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
Former President Donald Trump advocates across-the-board tariffs and reductions in U.S. drug prices to the level of prices paid in other nations.
—James C. Robinson, STAT, 29 Mar. 2024
The statistics, certainly, paint an almost across-the-board picture of a business in good health.
—Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2024
Trump has floated a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports, a 60% tariff on imports from China and a 100% tariff on foreign cars – including from Mexico.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
Then came an attempt to give the appropriations process teeth by setting an April deadline to pass the full-year spending bills or impose across-the-board cuts.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
Woodford had given a $1 per hour, across-the-board wage increase earlier in the year.
—Bruce Schreiner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
The plans aren’t as sweeping as the across-the-board loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 per borrower that Biden ordered in 2022, a measure the Supreme Court threw out last year.
—Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
There are announcements of across-the-board layoffs at the Beeb, arguments about what does and does not constitute a proper lead story, and enough editorial handwringing to require skin grafts on numerous palms.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
Former President Donald Trump advocates across-the-board tariffs and reductions in U.S. drug prices to the level of prices paid in other nations.
—James C. Robinson, STAT, 29 Mar. 2024
The statistics, certainly, paint an almost across-the-board picture of a business in good health.
—Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
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