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Recent Examples of belt-tightening
Owing in part to the company’s belt-tightening efforts, Thurston sold Outside’s Santa Fe offices.
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Last month, Columbia’s medical school implemented a hiring freeze and other belt-tightening measures in anticipation of the cuts.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
Kane County has been on a belt-tightening budget for many years.
—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
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Last month, Columbia’s medical school implemented a hiring freeze and other belt-tightening measures in anticipation of the cuts.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
Kane County has been on a belt-tightening budget for many years.
—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
See All Example Sentences for belt-tightening
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
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Corporate and individual spending is currently plagued by austerity measures, which means the entrepreneurial leader’s approach must be even sharper.—
Cynthia Pong,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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He was appointed by a Republican president who did not run on austerity measures in the first place, outside of DOGE.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
3 June 2025
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Early studies indicate that creatine supplements could enhance cognitive function in older adults and people with dementia or sleep deprivation.—
Staff Author Published,
Verywell Health,
11 June 2025
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There’s nothing but chaos and deprivation in the streets of America.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2025
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But whereas the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs grew up poor and were happy to wring a livelihood from cheap imitations, today’s tech graduates were spared the privations of their parents and yearn for something more meaningful.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
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For another thing, squeezing the Russian economy is unlikely to produce sufficient privation to create meaningful political pressure against Putin.—
Barry R. Posen,
Foreign Affairs,
8 July 2022
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In a season full of misery and a historic number of losses, there was plenty of reason to celebrate Colorado’s first walk-off win.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
12 June 2025
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Greta’s missed opportunity to understand the deep roots of this misery is another lesson lost to the world.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
11 June 2025
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That note of concern has resonated ever more loudly as observers deepened their exploration of adaptive design, made in conditions of actual exigency.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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Just as the imperatives of war led to the development of the SNA in the 1940s, the new exigencies of a world riven by trade wars, geopolitical instability, and supply shocks require a modern statistical framework.—
Diane Coyle,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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The crew initiated emergency firefighting procedures with the ship's onboard fire suppression system.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 June 2025
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The crew initiated emergency firefighting procedures with the ship's onboard fire-suppression system.—
Shane Croucher
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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