Example Sentences

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Indian businesses are facing cash-strapped consumers, reeling from shortages in cooking gases, and seeing sharp spikes in cost of living and lower remittances.

From Barron's • May 30, 2026

The wealthy Gulf countries know Pakistan relies on them for remittances and low-interest loans.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

These include possible fuel price hikes, tighter controls on overseas remittances and steps to attract dollar deposits from non-resident Indians -- a playbook used in past crises.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

If not for remittances, families would suffer even greater privation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

It was a belated admission that tens of thousands of famine-stricken North Koreans had already gone to China and that the country was increasingly dependent on their remittances.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden