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Recent Examples of belt-tightening
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.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
The company announced a series of belt-tightening measures and production delays on Friday, as the strike of 33,000 workers has added to Boeing’s litany of problems.
—Elodie Mazein, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
The belt-tightening plan also included the shuttering of Paramount Television Studios — which produces Prime Video’s Reacher, Apple’s Time Bandits — with shows moving to sister label CBS Studios.
—Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
There will be belt-tightening, with even more scrutiny around customer experience investments.
—Jon Picoult, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
The company announced a series of belt-tightening measures and production delays on Friday, as the strike of 33,000 workers has added to Boeing’s litany of problems.
—Elodie Mazein, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
The belt-tightening plan also included the shuttering of Paramount Television Studios — which produces Prime Video’s Reacher, Apple’s Time Bandits — with shows moving to sister label CBS Studios.
—Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
There will be belt-tightening, with even more scrutiny around customer experience investments.
—Jon Picoult, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
Noun
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The cuts follow months of austerity measures, including a hiring freeze and travel restrictions, which saved $3.7 million.—
Mohammed Tawfeeq,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
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While there are conflicting messages among Republican lawmakers as well as the Trump administration, Medicaid appears to be the biggest likely target of budget austerity measures.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Midway through the film, an I.E.D. explodes just outside the apartment building, and the sequence that follows, in which the survivors gradually regain consciousness, is a tour de force of sensory deprivation and temporal dislocation.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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While some hardship builds character, suffering extreme deprivation does not guarantee success.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Elizabeth Alexander,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Life was good, especially after the last three seasons of misery, when games at this time of year were meaningless aside from their impact on the draft lottery.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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For civilians, the unrelenting misery of the last 18 months has just got a lot worse – especially as no aid has entered Gaza for six weeks.—
Tim Lister and Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2025
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In the face of tragedy, Dess’s narrator memorably dramatizes the anxiety-inducing exigencies of the creative arts, and the need of artists to remain focussed on their craft.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 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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Passengers seated in emergency exit rows should always keep shoes on for safety reasons.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Last year, the United States gave $830 million in emergency aid, helping 4.4 million Sudanese, the United Nations estimates.—
Declan Walsh,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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