spend
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The company has signaled that it could potentially spend $750 billion in the coming years on obtaining more computing capacity, including deals it is still negotiating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
For the time being, only Amazon has announced a specific investment figure, saying it would spend 16 billion euros by the end of 2027.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
“At the time, a lot of people said the way that you do video is you spend a lot of money doing video specials and then you sell them to Netflix,” Greiman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
“The way I see it, I can spend the same amount of money on a prepared meal at a fast-food restaurant or buy ingredients that make a whole meal for multiple days,” Sabree told me.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
They’d spend their days at leisure in the hog wallow and nest in dry leaves by night.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
He spends most of his time at the podium reliving 2018.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
If Beijing spends on supply-side stimulus, “you would have just more productive capacity coming on,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Graduate student Megan Sweet, who studies biological sciences at Virginia Tech, spends much of her time preparing extremely thin slices of tumor tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
The show, which can certainly be tense, spends more time on being funny than violent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Fern spends entirely too much time in the Zuckermans’ barn.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
But Macdonald also spent the last nine years of his life battling leukemia while keeping it secret not just from his audience but his friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
A dedicated archivist of her own life via journals and film, Eleanor spent much of her time trailing her husband, Francis Ford Coppola, and children between their movie sets to document the arduous filmmaking process.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
He spent five years at Brown's Treasury where he oversaw policies such as the child trust funds and attempts to regenerate and devolve power - the Regional Development Agencies, later scrapped by the coalition government.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, he’s spent months chasing a deal with Mr. Xi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
But I’m not going to decide anything until I’ve spent some time with the three guys.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
In the end, federal spending went up this year by 5.5% to $7.4 trillion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Jefferies raised its Spotify price target to $620 ahead of earnings, citing a potential spending peak and the company’s AI opportunity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
However, Netflix has recently struggled with Americans spending less time watching programming on the platform, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
He is not expected to do that in his first Budget, with key spending decisions set to be unveiled next year.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
When we were little, he did “Grandma Camp” in the summer, spending every weekday with her while his parents were at work.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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