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India's central bank has already poured billions of dollars to stabilise the currency, curbed speculative trading and offered a special credit line to oil importers to ease dollar demand.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

They have invested tens of billions of dollars in hardware to upgrade their militaries and host U.S. bases.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

And they are embroiled in a row worth billions of dollars.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Over billions of years, various materials gradually filled parts of the channel.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Subprime mortgage lending was still a trivial fraction of the U.S. credit markets—a few tens of billions in loans each year—but its existence made sense, even to Steve Eisman.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis