How to Use belt-tightening in a Sentence
belt-tightening
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Kane County has been on a belt-tightening budget for many years.
—Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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Kane County has been on a belt-tightening budget for many years.
—Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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But though the industry is in a belt-tightening phase, no one is predicting the demise of the art form altogether.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
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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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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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Google has been on a belt-tightening, price-raising mission for about a year now, and part of that has involved across-the-board subscription price increases.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2023
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The deficit's history and Trump's record managing it during his first term were not mentioned amid Musk's belt-tightening plea.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
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The platform has vowed to do some belt-tightening and operate more efficiently this year.
—Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
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But Google is also in belt-tightening mode, clamping down on projects companywide that aren’t paying off.
—WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
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This time around, the space appears to have been hit with a general belt-tightening following a rosier stretch coming out of the pandemic, not to mention that the genre has been light on breakout hits in recent years.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2023
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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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With studios in belt-tightening mode as streaming services struggle for profitability, the climate isn’t likely to change.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
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Amid a difficult stretch for L.A.’s restaurant industry, even the choice of which pizza box to use is something belt-tightening proprietors consider.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
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Going into last year’s Sundance, there was concern that belt-tightening among the studios and the aftershocks of two Hollywood strikes would dampen the appetite for indie film purchases.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Gloria imposed a series of belt-tightening measures in November, weeks after voters rejected a sales-tax measure that would have raised $400 million a year in new revenue.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
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But the looming threat of a debt crisis and the absence of viable new financing alternatives have encouraged some countries to take preventive belt-tightening measures.
—Shantayanan Devarajan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2022
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Beignets are a Mardi Gras tradition stemming from when Catholics, in anticipation of the belt-tightening season of Lent, would use up all of their sugary and indulgent ingredients.
—Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
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Apple, the world’s most valuable company, began a belt-tightening effort last July, when galloping inflation and recession fears spurred it to take a more cautious stance.
—Mark Gurman, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
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The Ravens had to make difficult belt-tightening decisions, most notably cutting veteran defensive end Calais Campbell to create $7 million in salary cap space.
—Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2023
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The studio's belt-tightening — squeezing the budget down to $3.5 million due to Romero's unwavering artistic stance — left the director to later lament the divergence from his original ambitions.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
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Whether than means a resumption of general manager A.J. Preller’s freewheeling ways or continued belt-tightening remains to be seen.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2025
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Because Waymo’s founding vision is based deeply on people-carrying, in a time of belt-tightening Waymo must deliver on robotaxi.
—Richard Bishop, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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The new government is expected to introduce an era of financial belt-tightening and stricter immigration policies.
—Johanna Lemola, New York Times, 16 June 2023
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Budget tightening After years of surplus revenues, Tennessee is likely due for some belt-tightening amid a string of underperforming months.
—Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 8 Jan. 2024
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There will be belt-tightening, with even more scrutiny around customer experience investments.
—Jon Picoult, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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The cutback on temporary workers indicates that companies will continue their belt-tightening ways.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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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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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