spend
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It doesn’t mean that they don’t love each other, but it’s just that this is not the way that we want to spend the rest of our lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Anthropic could spend as much as $750 billion on AI compute capacity in the coming years, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited a copy of its draft IPO prospectus.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Forgent Power Solutions’s CFO, Ryan Fiedler, has stepped down to spend more time with his family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The 66-year-old had twice failed to get himself arrested so he could spend the night in jail before finally succeeding by sounding off about Erdogan in a park in the Mediterranean resort of Alanya.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Or I could spend the day with my friends.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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The region boomed, said Jeramaz, who now runs Grgich Hills Estate, and spends hours talking with visitors who come to taste his wines.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Wicker” also spends a fair amount of time with the husbands to show how much pressure they feel at home too, light as their burdens often seem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Now, Hargrave relies on Chicago’s public buses and trains with a $75 monthly pass, and spends less than $200 a month on Ubers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Eminem spends bar after bar defending his decision to even appear on the song, touting his decades-long friendship with Kid Rock and their intertwined history in the music industry.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Mama spends almost the same amount of time washing her pots and cleaning her blender as she does actually cooking.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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The AI Biosecurity Lab's creation will also be supported by leading AI developers, with OpenAI and Anthropic providing £200m worth of AI model credits that can be spent on the use of their models.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
First, companies spent on software and other technologies to improve production at a time of yawning labor shortages.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Childhood Marissa spent recesses in the library buried in books about ancient Egypt,” Roy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The stewards of Major League Baseball have spent all year trying to convince fans that a World Series like this one was all but impossible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
In the weeks he’d spent mentoring Clare, he’d even spoken minimally—revealing very little outside of the duties and expectations that came with ushering.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The Brewers, playing in baseball’s smallest market, might not routinely hand out free-agent riches, but owner Mark Attanasio said his team ranks “right in the middle” of the 30 teams in spending on baseball operations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Several groups are also running independent expenditure campaigns for Mazariegos, spending more than $250,000 so far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
"It's so scary," Rodney says, adding that he's been cutting back on food spending and keeps getting ill in the cold weather.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The investment boom has supercharged the economy by raising productivity, hoisting profits, driving record stock-market gains and underpinning consumer spending, especially among the wealthy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
It was the end-of-school pool party—at Max’s pool, of course—and Max felt that glow that comes from spending a full day in sunshine and chlorinated water.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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