big-ticket
Example Sentences
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Free cash flow is essentially the money companies have left over after expenses and making big-ticket investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
IBM’s warning suggested AI infrastructure spending is now displacing hardware budgets, too—squeezing a company whose customers install traditional systems in their own data centers and can defer big-ticket upgrades such as mainframes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In fact, it’s a popular time for discounts, with deals on big-ticket items like mattresses, furniture and appliances.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
It is certainly a dramatic transformation away from expensive big-ticket items like destroyers, towards large numbers of much cheaper and more expendable weapons.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
“A sled’s a big-ticket item. It ain’t no can of green peas. Whatcha got?”
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
