expenditure
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Enthusiasm on AI, pushing corporate profits to a record External link, is helping the economy—and so is large government expenditure.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Back then, it was a way of "resetting" Franco-German relations and pooling what were, at the time, more "limited" financial resources in terms of defence expenditure, Bergs explained.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Raman’s campaign expenditures included $300,000 to Middle Seat, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting business that also worked on the independent expenditure group supporting Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign in New York City.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
The downward revision was due largely to softer-than-expected capital expenditure, which had been anticipated following recent figures. from the Ministry of Finance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
For myself, I found that I was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronise Herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before I quite knew that I had opened my lips.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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