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as in funds
a sum of money set aside for a particular purpose
we've spent a little more than our budget this year
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as in supplies
the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time
the tour group had a whole budget of complaints
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as in plans
to work out the details of (something) in advance
the vacationers carefully budgeted how they would spend their limited time in Italy
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Recent Examples of budgets
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
2 July 2026
Rising labor costs, shrinking bank technology budgets and competing priorities add further pressure.
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Gary Palmer,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The Saturday morning series, which ran from 1986 to 1991, was gleefully surreal, sending Venkman, Egon and company into increasingly bizarre supernatural adventures unconstrained by live-action budgets.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
2 July 2026
Commissioning budgets have tightened, development cycles have lengthened and the opportunities for growing indies to scale have become increasingly limited.
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K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
2 July 2026
There's a variety of approaches to preventing mosquitoes that can fit a range of situations, budgets, landscapes, and preferences.
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The Spruce,
2 July 2026
Reluctant non-tech clients who don’t see AI adding ROI may cut their AI token budgets.
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Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
All four of Wyandotte County’s school districts adopted budgets last year that asked residents to pay about $10 million more in property taxes during the 2025-26 budget year than the year before.
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Sofi Zeman
june 27,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2026
School districts in Orange, Seminole, Lake and Osceola counties will each approve budgets in the next month and have been busy trying to make the numbers work.
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Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 June 2026
Nina Burns,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
The city budgets $250,000 each year for rebates.
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Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2026
With corporate sustainability targets off pace, budgets tight and near‑term hiring often untenable, increasing the bandwidth of existing teams is critical.
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William Crane,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
The Elections Department typically budgets $300,000 per year for such efforts.
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Tracey McManus,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Jan. 2026
The United States, which leads the ranking, budgets almost $900 billion for its military.
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Miami Herald,
1 Dec. 2025
Shotts, who shares her grocery savings tips on a video blog called VloggswithBecks, budgets $120 in groceries for two weeks for herself and her husband.
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Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
The city budgets annually for legal purposes and is also taking cost-saving measures this year to help cover the full cost of the payment, according to a spokesperson for the mayor.
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Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
16 Sep. 2025
New York currently budgets just $1 million to fund a guardianship hotline, and the legal arrangements receive little official oversight, with responsibility for people’s wellbeing spread among the courts, nonprofit organizations, private lawyers and companies.
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Jake Pearson,
ProPublica,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
As artificial intelligence transforms the job market and rising living costs squeeze family budgets, the University of California system is making the case that its degrees remain valuable investments.
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Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
2 July 2026
Rising labor costs, shrinking bank technology budgets and competing priorities add further pressure.
—
Gary Palmer,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The Saturday morning series, which ran from 1986 to 1991, was gleefully surreal, sending Venkman, Egon and company into increasingly bizarre supernatural adventures unconstrained by live-action budgets.
—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
2 July 2026
Commissioning budgets have tightened, development cycles have lengthened and the opportunities for growing indies to scale have become increasingly limited.
—
K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
2 July 2026
There's a variety of approaches to preventing mosquitoes that can fit a range of situations, budgets, landscapes, and preferences.
—
The Spruce,
2 July 2026
Reluctant non-tech clients who don’t see AI adding ROI may cut their AI token budgets.
—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
All four of Wyandotte County’s school districts adopted budgets last year that asked residents to pay about $10 million more in property taxes during the 2025-26 budget year than the year before.
—
Sofi Zeman
june 27,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2026
School districts in Orange, Seminole, Lake and Osceola counties will each approve budgets in the next month and have been busy trying to make the numbers work.
—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 June 2026
Verb
The report said the city council budgets $500,000 a year for investigations, and in a typical year, $200,000-$300,000 is used.
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Nina Burns,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
The city budgets $250,000 each year for rebates.
—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2026
With corporate sustainability targets off pace, budgets tight and near‑term hiring often untenable, increasing the bandwidth of existing teams is critical.
—
William Crane,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
The Elections Department typically budgets $300,000 per year for such efforts.
—
Tracey McManus,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Jan. 2026
The United States, which leads the ranking, budgets almost $900 billion for its military.
—
Miami Herald,
1 Dec. 2025
Shotts, who shares her grocery savings tips on a video blog called VloggswithBecks, budgets $120 in groceries for two weeks for herself and her husband.
—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
The city budgets annually for legal purposes and is also taking cost-saving measures this year to help cover the full cost of the payment, according to a spokesperson for the mayor.
—
Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
16 Sep. 2025
New York currently budgets just $1 million to fund a guardianship hotline, and the legal arrangements receive little official oversight, with responsibility for people’s wellbeing spread among the courts, nonprofit organizations, private lawyers and companies.
—
Jake Pearson,
ProPublica,
13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for budgets
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Rodríguez said emergency economic measures will include relief funds for victims and temporary waivers on documentation and property registration fees to facilitate housing relocation.
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State funds will cover half of the incentive amount, and auto manufacturers will cover the other half.
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The shipment includes emergency health kits for urgent medical care, including supplies for safe births, newborn care, disease prevention and treatment, according to the United Nations.
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At donation centers across Miami-Dade County, members of the Venezuelan community are collecting supplies for victims while anxiously waiting for news from home.
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Zada plans to shoot the movie first on a soundstage with real actors and will decide later which parts work better traditionally and what should be done synthetically.
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In addition, the group plans to bury a time capsule on July 4 in Philadelphia to be opened on America's 500th birthday in 2276.
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Democrats have also increased taxes on businesses, paid for programs out of other funds and suspended reserve deposits among other solutions.
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Expanding that relationship across lending, deposits and financial wellness is the difference between being a consumer's bank and being their financial home.
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Using a common fighter fleet simplifies logistics by reducing the need for separate maintenance systems, spare parts inventories and specialised training programmes.
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European allies and Canada scoured their inventories to see what could be offered should one of them come under attack.
Verb
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Google co-designs the chips with fellow Club name Broadcom .
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One40 Rooftop designs cocktails and food together to tell a story, while Salumeria Rosi offers traditional dessert pairings for an old-school Italian rhythm.
Noun
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Learning a dozen-plus pitchers, getting a grasp on their repertoires, determining how they can best be handled and what makes each tick was a challenge, along with understanding how the Rays do things.
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This is about the leap toward specificity, to diving below the surface of the most broadly appealing, easy-to-synthesize dishes — the ones, from any nation’s cuisine, that rarely make their way into restaurant repertoires.
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While Burnham plots his next move, the UK government now enters a new period of uncertainty, potentially facing a sixth prime minister in seven years.
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An engineer plots a well’s falling output, fits a curve, and projects it forward.
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“Budgets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/budgets. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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