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trillion

[tril-yuhn] / ˈtrɪl jən /


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The Higgs bosons themselves are produced when protons traveling at 99.99% the speed of light collide at energies reaching thirteen trillion electron volts.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

His task, say people close to the company, will be to guard the unique culture Warren Buffett nurtured to keep everything from candy to railroads to insurance under one roof in a $1 trillion conglomerate.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Today it’s about $1.1 trillion, or more than 20 times as much.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

Investors have expected Anthropic to be valued at around $2 trillion and raise up to $100 billion in the offering, both figures that would top records set by SpaceX’s June debut.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

I tried to go to sleep, but my brain was going in a trillion bad directions, wondering what would happen when the sun came up.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds

"The 10-year yield acts as a benchmark for trillions of dollars in assets worldwide", the paper explains, and its jump to 5% is "viewed as a worrisome threshold".

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

It makes you wonder what might support tens of trillions.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

By pairing hardware and software, Nvidia locked in customers and grew to be a company valued at trillions of dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

The Treasury Department is issuing trillions of dollars in new debt to finance its $1.8 trillion fiscal deficit.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollars’ worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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