shares
Example Sentences
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Hyperscalers have reduced spending on buybacks of their shares and dividends, while increasing capital expenditures on artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch • May 24, 2026
The idea of a special class of shares for Musk to keep control like the founders of Google and Facebook wasn’t in the cards.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
So to keep him focused, the board issued him one billion shares contingent on his ability to establish “a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
However, the company went on to source equity from elsewhere and when US equity firm TSG Consumer Partners acquired a 22% stake in Brewdog, they were given "preference shares".
From BBC • May 23, 2026
She’d used the public library Internet to look for apartment shares.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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