expense
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In response, Natural Environment director Jim Robinson said recent rain would "help alleviate the immediate problem" but the expense of an entire restoration "would impact on the other services which we deliver".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
ETFs by assets all track the S&P 500, and the fourth is Vanguard’s even broader Total Stock Market ETF with 3,500 stocks and a tiny expense ratio of 0.03%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“With no expense spared, this property boasts luxury quality construction, with grand scale and volume throughout, flooded with fresh air and brilliant Southern California sunlight,” the description states.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
For Gen, those sacrifices come at the expense of joy.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Each extravaganza is expected to surpass its predecessors; no expense is spared.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Americans are paying more out of pocket for healthcare in the form of deductibles, copayments and coinsurance, as well as expenses not covered by their insurance, according to federal data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Releasing the travel expenses, the government said the US trips were made to support the national team at the World Cup as well as to hold talks on trade, tourism, culture and investment.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Businesses are using AI to reduce labor and other expenses and to generate record profit margins that seem bulletproof.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The losses were largely driven by its compensation and consulting agreements, payroll and other administrative expenses, PublicSquare’s securities filings show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Half of our wages went to pay our expenses at the widows’ house, and the rest was put aside for us.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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The company also expects to receive $126 million in pretax tariff refunds for trade duties expensed this year and last.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Using a three-year depreciation schedule means that $300 million in data-center equipment gets expensed at $100 million a year.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Asked why he expensed Uber rides when he had a take-home car provided by the union, he said the rides were for members doing union business.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
But LaPierre conceded he wrongly expensed private flights for his family and accepted vacations from vendors doing business with the nonprofit gun rights organization without disclosing them.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
There were at Athens various funds, applicable to public purposes; one of which, and among the most considerable, was appropriated for the expensed of sacrifices, processions, festivals, spectacles, and of the theatres.
From The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 by Various
That 100% expensing provision was restored and made permanent last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Zion Research Group, which specializes in accounting and taxes, estimates the latest 100% expensing provision was worth $31.8 billion last year to Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Oracle combined, relative to the expiring provision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
They should improve upon the investment provisions in the tax act by making all the expensing provisions permanent, for instance.
From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026
The key is timing: expensing changes when companies take deductions and pay taxes, not whether they pay them.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
By being placed in the centre of the clearing, an assault could not be made without expensing the assailants, and the spring always assured to the garrison the great requisite, water.
From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper
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