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Recent Examples of belt-tightening
Last month, Columbia’s medical school implemented a hiring freeze and other belt-tightening measures in anticipation of the cuts.
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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
This unease may lead to cautious hiring practices and belt-tightening measures, such as potential layoffs, particularly in sectors undergoing digital transformation.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
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But to many observers, this fetishization of austerity has contributed to decades of underinvestment in domestic infrastructure − from roads, to schools, to public buildings, to broader public services − failures which the AfD has been eager to exploit.—
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The Medicaid program appears to be a very likely target of budget austerity measures, to help partially pay for an extension of the tax cuts enacted during President Trump’s first term in office.—
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Doughty was sentenced to two years probation after pleading guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law.—
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Earlier this year, a jury found Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Trevor Kirk guilty of felony deprivation of rights by use of excessive force.—
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Out of the privation, the challenge, and the censure of slavery and the unfulfilled promise of post-Reconstruction justice, Black musicians embraced experimentation and innovation, ingenuity and joy, and a multigenerational call and response speaking truth to power that endures to the present day.—
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As a prisoner of war, Morris R. Wills faced a gamut of privations—he was left malnourished and consigned to filthy conditions amid the ever-present threat of execution.—
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The Best Clothing Box Photograph: Stitch Fix Stitch Fix Kids Clothes Box $16 Stitch Fix As my kids have gotten older, shopping for their clothes has become a misery.—
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The value of the Syrian currency plummeted during the civil war years, adding to the misery.—
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Some point to the exigencies of great-power competition to justify a pilgrimage to Riyadh.—
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Like every other era since Israel’s birth in 1948, there are always immediate exigencies.—
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The law, known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, allows the president to take economic action after declaring an emergency that constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the United States.—
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What To Know On Saturday, Zelensky posted on X how missile and drone fragments were being cleared up in Kyiv, where rescue and emergency operations were ongoing.—
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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