expense
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Flying was a big expense until this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
As Fennell reminds us at the end of the film, justice — if it ever comes — often arrives too late, and at the expense of too many lives.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Your biggest expense is your mortgage, and I hope you’re on a fixed rate, because the 30-year rate has risen to 7.3%, according to the latest data.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
No expense was spared for the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend’s vulgar relations.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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After taxes and expenses, Singh estimates his $200,000 in gross revenue a year yields just $45,000 in take-home pay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The GoFundMe fund-raiser was launched by Kate Jones to help cover Harrison's funeral and memorial costs, as well as household bills and essential expenses while his parents take time away from work to grieve.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
After all, the increase in corporate borrowing expenses can be expected to drive profits lower, and investors now have compelling choices to diversify into the bond market for attractive yields.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The amount required to sign the player is the most obvious, but there are also agents fees, legal expenses, administration money and potentially signing-on bonuses.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Maggie’s future schooling and living expenses were to be secretly funded by Elisha.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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A startup founder who expensed “cellulite butter” to the bank during her trial for defrauding the bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Using a three-year depreciation schedule means that $300 million in data-center equipment gets expensed at $100 million a year.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
“Edison will go to the California Utility Commission and say, ‘We need this money to be expensed in rates.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
But LaPierre conceded he wrongly expensed private flights for his family and accepted vacations from vendors doing business with the nonprofit gun rights organization without disclosing them.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
There were at Athens various funds, applicable to public purposes; one of which, and among the most considerable, was appropriated for the expensed of sacrifices, processions, festivals, spectacles, and of the theatres.
From The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 by Various
Dubbed the productivity mega deduction, the government said it will allow for immediate expensing for a broad-based range of depreciable property on a permanent basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Zion Research Group, which specializes in accounting and taxes, estimates the latest 100% expensing provision was worth $31.8 billion last year to Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Oracle combined, relative to the expiring provision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
They should improve upon the investment provisions in the tax act by making all the expensing provisions permanent, for instance.
From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026
During the shift to expensing, businesses will continue claiming depreciation deductions for past investments while claiming full deductions for new investments immediately.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
By being placed in the centre of the clearing, an assault could not be made without expensing the assailants, and the spring always assured to the garrison the great requisite, water.
From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper
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