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Recent Examples of belt-tightening
But there are also signs that Cannes, synonymous with glamour and lavish parties, may be in belt-tightening mode.
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Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 13 May 2025
There are signs of belt-tightening abound on Chinese city streets, where diners pack restaurants offering 40 cent breakfasts, and stores hold flash sales and wage price wars with competitors.
—Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 9 May 2025
While software companies generally don’t have a lot of direct tariff exposure, the concern for the group is that belt-tightening from their customers could dampen spending on software and lead to deals taking longer to complete.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
Owing in part to the company’s belt-tightening efforts, Thurston sold Outside’s Santa Fe offices.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
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Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 13 May 2025
There are signs of belt-tightening abound on Chinese city streets, where diners pack restaurants offering 40 cent breakfasts, and stores hold flash sales and wage price wars with competitors.
—Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 9 May 2025
While software companies generally don’t have a lot of direct tariff exposure, the concern for the group is that belt-tightening from their customers could dampen spending on software and lead to deals taking longer to complete.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
Owing in part to the company’s belt-tightening efforts, Thurston sold Outside’s Santa Fe offices.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
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This period of fiscal austerity and penny-pinching has fueled creative workarounds.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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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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According to one 2019 study published in the journal Sleep, moms and dads can expect to experience some form of sleep deprivation for the first six years of their child's life.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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The animals’ skulls are later surgically opened, electrodes are implanted into their brains, and researchers show them visual stimuli (images of faces, for example) to examine how the sensory deprivation or other visual manipulations affected their neurodevelopment.—
Marina Bolotnikova,
Vox,
18 June 2025
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The policy, while inevitably controversial, was meant to correct for the nearly fifty years of brutal privations that Black South Africans endured under apartheid.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
1 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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Humidity is adding to the misery Oppressive humidity is accompanying the heat wave, according to Weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Erdman.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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Cuomo, age 67 and one of the last powerful men to succumb to the #MeToo movement, is an unlikely standard-bearer for a Democratic Party desperate to move on from the miseries of the past decade, but New York politics isn’t famous for its uncomplicated options.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
17 June 2025
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The judges repeatedly stressed an 1827 Supreme Court decision, Martin v. Mott, that gives the president exclusive authority to decide whether an exigency justifying the use of military power has arisen.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
17 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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Ukraine's state emergency service said five other people were injured in Smila, with a college and three other buildings damaged.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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Fort Lauderdale officials have not yet decided how to spend the money, although $4.8 million might go toward creating the city’s own emergency reserve in case the Federal Emergency Management Agency goes away.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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