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depreciation

[dih-pree-shee-ey-shuhn] / dɪˌpri ʃiˈeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
devaluation
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STRONGEST


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While debate over capex growth and depreciation costs is likely to continue, Tencent’s model-development efforts deserve more recognition, Bernstein says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Adjusted earning before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization—the company’s preferred earnings metric—more than doubled to $491.5 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

But every other chip in the data center can be pointed at whatever model comes next, which is the assumption underneath the current depreciation schedules the AI buildout is financed on.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Now I’m down to the wire on either purchasing a replacement or paying capital-gains tax and depreciation recapture.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Prices kept going up and up, and depreciation of the paper money took a lot of the profit out of it.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

The gold miner said earnings before interest, taxes, depreciations and amortization more than doubled on year to $2.29 billion, aided by higher production volumes and elevated gold prices.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

President Masoud Pezeshkian promised dialogue and acknowledged "legitimate demands" in in a country where inflation soars near 50%, and currency depreciations play havoc with people's hardscrabble lives.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2026

Next year also could see corporates taking advantage of last year’s tax law changes that allow 100% bonus depreciations and immediate expensing of R&D costs.

From MarketWatch Dec. 5, 2025

"All countries are experiencing currency depreciations, our focus is to stabilise the exchange rate through intervention," Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo said.

From Reuters Aug. 25, 2023

And it is all the prettier, seeing from what source it comes; a source, to be sure, whence proceeded cursings and revilings, depreciations, and a thorough belittling of most things.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper




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