How to Use cash-strapped in a Sentence
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Fentanyl, by contrast, can be smoked easily and efficiently by users who are often cash-strapped and concerned with cost-effectiveness.
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Lev Facher,
STAT,
12 Feb. 2026
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When her mother’s Southern offices became overextended and cash-strapped, McKissack Daniel had to make the painful decision to shut them down.
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Geri Stengel,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The toll has also generated more than $550 million in revenue for the region's creaky and cash-strapped transit system — exceeding projections, the MTA has said.
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CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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The toll has also generated more than $550 million in revenue for the region’s creaky and cash-strapped transit system — exceeding projections, the MTA has said.
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Philip Marcelo,
Twin Cities,
3 Mar. 2026
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The pandemic left the YMCA cash-strapped and the prospect of a developer bulldozing the camp energized generations of residents and Wewa alumni seeking to save it.
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Brian Bell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Aug. 2025
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With the country cash-strapped, the Arab Spring of 2011 set off a wave of mass migration into Europe, which coincided with the widespread perception that the extra numbers were placing further strains on already creaking resources of jobs, housing and healthcare.
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Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
23 June 2026
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