How to Use across-the-board in a Sentence

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• Few projects got as much across-the-board love as theirs.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• The union achieved many of its goals, including across-the-board pay raises.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
• The bill would set an across-the-board maximum annual 36% rate.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• Woodford had given a $1 per hour, across-the-board wage increase earlier in the year.
  — Bruce Schreiner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
• Live television viewership has declined across-the-board over the past few years, with pro football one of the few events to buck the trend.
  — Mark Kennedy, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
• Under the terms of the debt ceiling law, that could trigger a 1% across-the-board cut to defense and nondefense funding.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 29 Nov. 2023
• The clock speed bumps provide a small across-the-board performance uplift, and the impact of the extra RAM becomes apparent in a few of our tests.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
• The statistics, certainly, paint an almost across-the-board picture of a business in good health.
  — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
• Peep a few of the best sparkling water brands, below: And though sparkling water may seem like an across-the-board healthy option, not all brands are created equal.
  — Sarah Felbin, womenshealthmag.com, 26 May 2023
• In past budget crises, Petek wrote, the state made across-the-board cuts to per-pupil allocations (the amount the state spends per student) and deferred payments.
  — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
• But Davis said across-the-board cuts don’t necessarily provide relief to those most in need.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
• But the proposal would also prevent schools from enacting across-the-board bans.
  — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Quit trying to pick winners and losers and start advocating for across-the-board increases.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
• Trump is already talking about across-the-board tariffs on imports if he is reelected.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Local 99 has reached an impasse with the district in months-long negotiations for an across-the-board 30% raise and more for the lowest earners.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• The Pacific Island nations are hardly across-the-board sports powers.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Bruins junior guard Lazar Stefanovic added 11 points, four rebounds and four steals in another strong across-the-board showing.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Then came an attempt to give the appropriations process teeth by setting an April deadline to pass the full-year spending bills or impose across-the-board cuts.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
• With a smirk and swag, Blunt may finally be able to snag her first nom for supporting actress, especially in a film that is an across-the-board contender.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 20 July 2023
• The district last year had implemented a 3% pay bump for each year that teachers stay in the district, which comes on top of any across-the-board inflationary increase.
  — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2023
• The union is also asking for a 12% across-the-board pay increase for the current academic year; CSU has offered a 5% raise in each of the next three years, with the last two years dependent on state funding.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The second request is meant to minimize the risk of a 1%, across-the-board cut Biden agreed to that takes effect if even a single appropriations bill doesn't pass Congress.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2023
• Regardless, lawmakers from both chambers will have to return to the negotiating table in the new year to avoid the across-the-board budget cuts in the debt limit deal.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• The deal with Local 99 is not an across-the-board increase but spread out over time and also affected by length of service and current salary — so that some workers will receive less than 30% and some more.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, gaps do remain between the union’s demands and what the companies are offering, especially in terms of across-the-board pay increases.
  — Marick Masters, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2023
• The supervisor’s son Klaus (Theo Dahl) is insecure about his across-the-board Bs, fretting that mediocre grades will steer him into the life of an underachiever.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
• Without an across-the-board mandate for money for those populations now, the problem the governor is trying to address could only get worse in the future.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• The spending, which is expected to largely drain that surplus, is coupled with significant targeted and across-the-board tax cuts.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
• Namely, educators are looking for a substantial across-the-board raise.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2023
• But some important differences remain; O’Brien is still demanding larger across-the-board raises and a major pay boost for part-timers.
  — Steven Greenhouse, The New Republic, 25 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024