billions
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The agreement is worth billions of dollars over the next several years, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some estimates made by Doge, the body charged with reducing US government spending, that it saved billions of dollars are "incorrect or lack supporting evidence", a watchdog has found.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Investors have enjoyed a much-needed rally since Friday, following a month-long tech rout that slashed billions of dollars off valuations owing to concerns about the vast sums companies had pumped into artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
“You don’t have to necessarily spend many billions of dollars in low-band spectrum all upfront before you deploy your system,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Slipping between millions and billions or between billions and trillions should in this sense be equally funny, but it isn’t, because we too often lack an intuitive feeling for these numbers.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
