How to Use austerity in a Sentence

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  • There are all sorts of bad things that can come out of austerity.
    — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2022
  • President Pérez put forth a series of austerity measures that drew the ire of many.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But some of the names pivoting toward austerity bear watching.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 5 May 2022
  • As for their homes, Read tried to mimic the austerity of Latter-day Saint temples and meeting houses.
    — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
  • Examples from around the world show that capital controls, price controls, and austerity make inflation worse, not better.
    — Steve Forbes, National Review, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Ruto added that the government would instead make further austerity measures, beginning with his own office.
    — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • Restrained spending, but no austerity budget Hochul’s budget is a starting point for legislators who are expected to seek to push spending up.
    — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • To me, his decision expresses unrestrained freedom even within a predicament of wintry austerity.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Years of austerity helped fuel widespread discontent, and plummeting global coffee prices deepened hardship in a country that relied so heavily on the crop.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • Yet the Dardennes, in the humanity of their austerity, aren’t being reductive.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 May 2022
  • There’s little hint of austerity on the rest of the campus.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2023
  • On the flip side, more than a decade of austerity has seen funding cuts across the arts sectors.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • In the new austerity era, white-collar workers will bear the brunt of layoffs.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In an era of media austerity, the sharing of resources can go a long way.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In much of the Western world, pancakes are eaten on Shrove Tuesday, the last day before the start of Lent and its 40 days of austerity.
    — Grace Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The long-term effects of austerity are still playing out.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • On top of that, Adams has used the arrival of migrants as an excuse to blow holes in the city’s own budget and argue for an austerity agenda.
    — Max Rivlin-Nadler, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Some see a wave of austerity coming to an industry known for its glamour and largesse.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Even the White House Christmas tree was not spared, remaining unlit as a sign of austerity.
    — By Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan , WSJ, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Managers are looking for ways to cut costs in this new era of austerity and belt-tightening.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The growth in the royal family’s coffers and Charles’s personal wealth over the past decade came at a time when Britain faced deep austerity budget cuts.
    — Jane Bradley, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In its cold West Marin environs, the syrah grape struggles to ripen, and as such, yields a leathery austerity to this expression.
    — Jeff Burkhart, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
  • In private, and in public, their leading economists agree that harsh austerity is the way out.
    — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • Luke’s is one of gray austerity, all cloudy skies and dirty fingernails and blocky concrete apartments.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Just four years ago, former Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to bring nearly a decade of austerity to a close.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Within this austerity, the supporting cast does, like Nora, still manage to scrimp and save and come up with something good.
    — Vulture, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But Bridges’s focused tone was just right for Perry’s poignant austerity.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The austerity of the all-white hammam is not without its decadence thanks to the nearly all-marble construction plus the mother-of-pearl inlays.
    — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • And this is what happens, after 12 years of this party in power, through austerity, through Brexit, through the demise of Britain on the foreign stage—except for in Ukraine, this is what’s happened.
    — Nikolas Lanum, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The latest economic news suggests those forecasts are coming to fruition, ensuring that the era of tech austerity is here to stay.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 June 2022

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