expenditure

Example Sentences

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With top tech companies shifting their cash flow toward heavily artificial-intelligence-fueled capital expenditure, the buybacks that have supported the market for so long will diminish.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

The three top spenders -- the United States, China and Russia -- spent a combined total of $1.48 trillion, just over half of global expenditure.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

Both of those numbers were overshadowed by the $2.5 million given by Sokoloff’s mother, Sheryl Sokoloff, to an independent expenditure committee supporting him.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

He also says that lower capital expenditure outlook is positive for cash generation, which came as a surprise, and the new lower level is one that should be sustainable even if macro trends improve.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

For myself, I found that I was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronise Herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before I quite knew that I had opened my lips.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens