belt-tightening

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Recent Examples of belt-tightening But there are also signs that Cannes, synonymous with glamour and lavish parties, may be in belt-tightening mode. Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 13 May 2025 There are signs of belt-tightening abound on Chinese city streets, where diners pack restaurants offering 40 cent breakfasts, and stores hold flash sales and wage price wars with competitors. Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 9 May 2025 While software companies generally don’t have a lot of direct tariff exposure, the concern for the group is that belt-tightening from their customers could dampen spending on software and lead to deals taking longer to complete. Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025 Owing in part to the company’s belt-tightening efforts, Thurston sold Outside’s Santa Fe offices. Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for belt-tightening
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
Noun
  • If that scenario unfolds, the U.S. could be forced into painful austerity.
    Selina Wang, ABC News, 4 July 2025
  • Onganía promised nothing less than a new social order: a project of economic modernization marked by austerity, and a cultural policy that included censoring artists, attacking the autonomy of universities, banning miniskirts, and prohibiting long hair for men.
    Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • In Five Minutes Sleep deprivation affects millions of Americans, with approximately 70 million people suffering from chronic sleep problems according to health authorities.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • Without this phase of sleep, horses can suffer from REM deprivation, leading to drowsiness and even collapse.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The policy, while inevitably controversial, was meant to correct for the nearly fifty years of brutal privations that Black South Africans endured under apartheid.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 June 2025
  • But whereas the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs grew up poor and were happy to wring a livelihood from cheap imitations, today’s tech graduates were spared the privations of their parents and yearn for something more meaningful.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Fortune said Thursday that the Obama administration gave Haitians temporary protective status after an earthquake devastated Haiti, multiplying the island’s many miseries.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2025
  • The season ends with so many of the characters on the verge of a path to proper fulfillment; why prolong their misery?
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Potential finalists will be notified via email and will be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, License of Work and Release of Liability/Publicity within three (3) days of date of notification, or a shorter time if required by exigencies, or a runner-up may be selected.
    Kelli Bender, People.com, 30 June 2025
  • The judges repeatedly stressed an 1827 Supreme Court decision, Martin v. Mott, that gives the president exclusive authority to decide whether an exigency justifying the use of military power has arisen.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • The river was rising, and the situation was quickly developing into an emergency; Hunt, a town of about thirteen hundred people along the banks of the Guadalupe River, sits in what’s known as Texas’s flash-flood alley.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to over 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance.
    Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025

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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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