expenditure
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Paris will never get its numbers to add up if such an expenditure can’t be debated or reformed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Amazon has said it plans to spend $220 billion on capital expenditure this year, almost double what it spent in 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
It generated £5m in net additional expenditure in Manchester, with £3.6m coming from visitors and £1.4m as a result of organiser and partner expenditure.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The closely watched personal consumption expenditure gauge came in at a below-forecast 3.4 percent, while the Commerce Department revised upwards its estimate for second-quarter economic growth thanks to the artificial intelligence investment boom.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
This need to be always on guard was an unmeasured expenditure of energy, the slow siphoning of the essence.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
While the term has no standard definition under accounting rules, free cash flow is typically calculated as cash flow from operating activities minus capital expenditures, or capex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Both AI companies have skyrocketing capital expenditures, and the coming months are critical in showing Wall Street they have sustainable businesses and revenue streams to back up trillion-plus dollar valuations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In its latest quarterly filing, the company said it expects capital expenditures to exceed $25 billion in 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
A company’s free-cash-flow yield is its remaining cash flow after capital expenditures, or spending on physical assets.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Adjusting for inflation, these figures reflect a tripling of justice expenditures since 1982.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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