takings
Example Sentences
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Since building their new stadium for around £1bn, Spurs have focused heavily on selling hospitality tickets and corporate packages for matches in order to maximise matchday takings.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
Tourists from around the world are now flooding back: 4.8 million visitors arrived in 2024, boosting the coffers of the basilica, which relies on the takings as well as private donations.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
A key way to fight back would be lawsuits under the takings clause.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026
Other courts, more plausibly, have held that a takings claim can be brought only when a police officer is acting unreasonably in destroying property.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026
Once inside their rooms, Dallas and Florida each pried up a loose floorboard and deposited their takings from the kitchen: one nearly whole piece of bread and one raw potato each.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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