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Recent Examples of belt-tightening
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.
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Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 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
Nexstar Media Group, which has been trimming staff at The CW in recent months, plans to expand those belt-tightening efforts by cutting 2% of its total workforce.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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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Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 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
Nexstar Media Group, which has been trimming staff at The CW in recent months, plans to expand those belt-tightening efforts by cutting 2% of its total workforce.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
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Pope Francis’s personal tweaks Pope Francis issued small reforms in 2024 that would make his funeral more focused on humility, austerity, and his own personal devotion.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
20 Feb. 2025
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One club has poor results, a squad that doesn’t fit the new manager, that same squad is uber expensive, toxic stars out on loan, limited resources to buy players, a crumbling stadium, mountains of debt, pilfering owners, and are in the midst of an austerity crackdown.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
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Scientists from the Department of Psychology at the University of York, United Kingdom, aimed to uncover how sleep deprivation leads to intrusive thoughts.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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Over the years, experts have found that differences in brain structure or function, genetic variations and mutations, and medical complications (e.g. extreme prematurity, oxygen deprivation at birth, and certain maternal health issues) all seem to play a role.—
Cassie Shortsleeve,
SELF,
19 Feb. 2025
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Economic privation could further encourage violent competition between Syrian armed groups over territory and revenues.—
Sam Heller,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2024
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But envisioning the privation that followed, with Panguna shut down, requires little imagination.—
Sean Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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One of the few remaining positives in his life is upended before the pilot comes to a close, pushing poor Ted that much further into misery.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
23 Feb. 2025
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Human misery and environmental devastation proved the cost of turning coffee from a luxury good into a staple.—
Peter S. Goodman,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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George Washington, who could have been a king, set the tone by abdicating after two terms, a precedent followed by all his successors until F.D.R., under wartime exigency, broke it.—
Bill McKibben,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2025
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In addition, institutions that reduce or close a program, department, college, or position because of a reinvestment plan would be able to proceed with policies and procedures associated with a declaration of financial exigency.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes,
3 Feb. 2025
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The emergency meeting, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, will include leaders of Britain, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2025
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France called an emergency meeting of European Union countries and the U.K. on Monday to decide how to address the U.S. diplomatic blitz on the war.—
Matthew Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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