expenditure
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The inquiry said its expenditure was proportionate and overseen judicially.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Last year, the total U.S. personal consumption expenditure last year was just under $21 trillion on some $26 trillion of personal income.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The management attributed the suspension to frontloaded capital expenditure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Right now, annual data center capital expenditure lands roughly at $800 billion, but that’s expected to increase to $1.8 trillion in 2050.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
In separate statements, the Retrenchment Committee urged the directors to make the committee permanent and invest it with the power to approve or deny every expenditure at the exposition, no matter how small.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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If AI companies struggle to show a return on their AI capital expenditures, that also could “paradoxically” boost their bonds, according to a recent note from Lotfi Karoui, multi-asset credit strategist at Pimco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Authority board members and an outside peer review group also have questioned decisions and expenditures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The watchdog's report also notes that equipment losses have totaled $3.7bn, with other $7.4bn in other expenditures.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
"The big four hyperscalers, which include Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet, have spent roughly $900 billion in the last two years on capital expenditures for AI," Brooks noted.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
It represents, in short, a substantial segment of today’s expenditures for health.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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