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spent

[spent] / spɛnt /


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Typically they spent about £500 on shares costing £20-30 each but some invested larger sums in hopes of a good return.

From BBC

Free American women allowed themselves to say this to me, an Iranian who spent three years under forced hijab, in an Islamic Republic school.

From The Wall Street Journal

Like Gray, the chef Clare de Boer spent many years working in a cramped—and coveted—New York restaurant: King, which she opened with two partners in the West Village in 2016.

From The Wall Street Journal

Investors have spent the past few months worrying about megacap companies’ ambitious capital expenditure plans and, more recently, about how AI might disrupt sectors like software.

From Barron's

She’s never lived in Ukraine — she spent her first few years in Tallinn before moving to Finland at age 5— but her life has been infused with its heritage.

From Los Angeles Times