How to Use outgo in a Sentence

outgo

noun
  • When the surplus was exposed as a phantom, the state was stuck with a chronic income/outgo gap that persists.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • When the surplus was exposed as a phantom, the state was stuck with a chronic income/outgo gap that persists.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Unfortunately, the state is not alone in being plagued by yawning gaps between income and outgo.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • As revenues failed to meet expectations, the budget experienced a structural gap between income and outgo.
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
  • The online delivery method changed and with few expenses for groundskeeping and other items related to on-campus learning, there were some savings that balanced the outgo of funds.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 26 June 2020
  • Given the nature of the current slowdown, which is mainly due to weak consumer demand, there is no reason to imagine that private companies will invest more if their tax outgo decreases.
    — Rahul Menon, Quartz India, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Fiscal experts believe that the government will require more than $25 billion a year and that the national debt cannot be reduced unless incomes exceed the probable outgo.
    — NOLA.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The structural deficit — an ongoing gap between income and outgo — has existed ever since, totaling $125 billion, according to Petek.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 19 May 2026
  • The administration’s own projections show a $23 billion gap between income and outgo for 2026-27 and similar gaps for the following two years if nothing is done.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Gabe Petek, the Legislature’s budget analyst, sees an immediate $18 billion gap between income and outgo that could mushroom to $35 billion if not closed.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The Newsom administration’s 2022 projection of a fast recovery and a cornucopia of state revenues turned out to be wildly inaccurate, leading to a wide gap between income and outgo.
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2024

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