spender
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has turned the company into a major spender on AI.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Germany has overtaken the U.K. to become Europe’s largest military spender, with its expenditure growing 24% year-over-year to $114 billion, reaching 2.3% of GDP in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Sam Altman says OpenAI’s top token spender uses 100 billion tokens a month — and is not even the world’s leader.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
One wild-card spender in this campaign is retired businessman Bill Bloomfield, who has put $367,093 into an independent campaign on behalf of Melvoin.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Enough to cover the cost of the drinks plus tip—not too much, but enough to look like a big spender.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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Instead, the worst thing has happened: A couple of crafty, thrifty, well-run teams with low payrolls but dynamo management knocked out the spenders to reach the big show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Apple will no doubt expand this market given its appeal with bigger spenders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Adidas was one of many major spenders making big marketing bets during the World Cup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
"We see a lot of the traditional big R&D spenders -- pharma, cars, construction -- cutting back on their R&D spend", he noted.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
I knew that I was leaving her badly off; we were both good spenders, and all my spare profits had gone into the manufactory; but I did not trouble about that.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
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