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Recent Examples of belt-tightening
The cost estimate, provided to The Times on Monday by the county chief executive office, will necessitate more belt-tightening for a government that’s running out of notches.
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Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
With major belt-tightening now taking place across the UC system, Kollar Smith and her team are striving to cut back on production expenses for the coming season.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
Whether escalating tech innovation, including YouTube and artificial intelligence, industry consolidation, Wall Street market gyrations or just general belt-tightening among content consumers and creators, such economic headwinds and challenges were on the mind of media leaders on stage in Banff.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
But there are also signs that Cannes, synonymous with glamour and lavish parties, may be in belt-tightening mode.
—Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 13 May 2025
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Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
With major belt-tightening now taking place across the UC system, Kollar Smith and her team are striving to cut back on production expenses for the coming season.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
Whether escalating tech innovation, including YouTube and artificial intelligence, industry consolidation, Wall Street market gyrations or just general belt-tightening among content consumers and creators, such economic headwinds and challenges were on the mind of media leaders on stage in Banff.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
But there are also signs that Cannes, synonymous with glamour and lavish parties, may be in belt-tightening mode.
—Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
Noun
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Lenders believed austerity measures were the answer and forced Greece into making politically unpopular but economically required structural changes.—
Garth Friesen,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Ahead of the closing of the deal, Paramount was already showing signs of private equity-style fiscal austerity.—
Ashley Lutz,
Fortune,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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He is charged with deprivation of rights under color of law and falsifying records.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Aug. 2025
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Between 2019 and 2023, the U.S. saw an alarming, 110% increase in deaths due to hypoxia (or oxygen deprivation to the brain) stemming from nitrous oxide abuse, according to researchers.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
6 Aug. 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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Nothing was achieved except more misery for the region at the hands of Hamas and its allies.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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The question of whether there is hunger is different from the question of who is responsible for the misery.—
Seth Mandel,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
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Loosely based on a true story, this novel explores the meaning of family, morality, resilience and honor amid wartime exigencies.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
10 Aug. 2025
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During that meeting, McNally pressed Tucker to explore financial exigency for TSU, an extensive and extreme measure that would allow the university to cut programs and fire tenured faculty, if needed.—
Rachel Wegner,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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The State Board passed an emergency regulation that went into effect July 23 that allowed Wright to extend Tasker-Mitchell’s reinstatement until Jan. 19 or until a hearing occurs.—
William J. Ford,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Aug. 2025
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The flooding could take out your emergency generators.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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