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It is estimated illegal streaming costs legitimate companies billions of pounds.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

For SpaceX, that will be billions of dollars worth of shares and could take many hours, some bankers say.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

India has become ground zero for superfast deliveries—often in under 10 minutes—of everything from eggs to electronics, fueling a boom that has attracted billions of dollars from global companies and deep-pocketed investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Taiwan has spent many billions of dollars buying fighter jets, high-tech missiles and drones from the United States to bolster its defences against a potential attack from China.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

It took nature hundreds of millions of years to evolve a bacterium, and billions to make a grasshopper.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan