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expense

[ik-spens] / ɪkˈspɛns /


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“AI should expand opportunity — not come at the expense of workers and families,” Newsom said last month in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

If the approach can be translated to people, it could remove much of the manufacturing, expense, and delay that currently limits access to CAR-T therapy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Malaysia dropped off the calendar because the government there was no longer willing to pay the rights fee, feeling that the expense did not justify the return.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Relatives and friends have questioned the time away from home and expense, but Solis said she felt “very blessed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Meredith also shopped for Sasha and Malia ahead of public events, which added to the overall expense, but they, too, had the gaze upon them.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

They pay vehicle-related expenses, including insurance, repair and maintenance costs that have all outpaced inflation in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

His expenses include a $600 monthly payment on his 2019 Infiniti QX60, nearly $800 every six months for the insurance and close to $70 for gas on a typical 250-mile day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Farm bankruptcies jumped 46 percent from 2024 to 2025, with the Midwest outpacing other regions, on lower revenue and rising expenses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

There, rising expenses are squeezing voters while data centers spark backlash.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

I offered, “We do have a scheme, however, that shall cover our expenses, madam.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The company also expects to receive $126 million in pretax tariff refunds for trade duties expensed this year and last.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The largest spend is on the equipment that fills data centers, which gets expensed over 5½ years in Meta’s case.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 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

Full corporate expensing in last year’s tax bill and proposed FDA reforms to fast-track reviews of new plants could encourage more manufacturing in the U.S., but new plants can’t be built overnight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

The new law permanently provides full expensing, allowing businesses to immediately deduct the full cost of new investments, just as they do for labor or utility costs.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

“Compliance costs associated with tracking incremental qualified R&D for the credit are higher than expensing qualified R&D activity to take the deduction,” Watson says.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 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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