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expense

[ik-spens] / ɪkˈspɛns /


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"We need clear EU rules to protect and strong enforcement to make sure new technologies don't come at the expense of our fundamental rights," she said.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

This is the book expense to gradually write down the value of its customer base and other acquired intangible assets.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

A suspicious spot can lead to repeat imaging, biopsies, significant expense, and most importantly, months of worry—only to turn out to be benign.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Housing is the single biggest expense for most people.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

New York’s newspapers had a field day at Kate’s expense: “One of the Fox Sisters Arrested,” “Neglected Her Children,” “Lamentable Downfall of Once Celebrated Spirit Rapper.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

For his 25th reunion, he wrote in a class update that he had nearly died of kidney failure but that his company was flourishing, making more than 30% a year before fees and expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

I’m wondering whether I should suggest that my mother establish a trust or some other structured arrangement for these educational expenses rather than giving my brother money.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

Should the airline not provide them with this, then claims for reasonable expenses can be made afterwards.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

The residents also told the county that Farmers has refused to pay for adequate remediation of the contaminants and declined to cover ongoing living expenses.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

And they’d reduce expenses by living outside the city.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

A startup founder who expensed “cellulite butter” to the bank during her trial for defrauding the bank.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Foreign-based expenses still must be expensed over 15 years.

From Barron's Mar. 14, 2026

“Edison will go to the California Utility Commission and say, ‘We need this money to be expensed in rates.’”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 15, 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

It’s even more of a victory given how the 2025 tax cut incorporated full expensing of equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Bodner was fired after expensing a Super Bowl platter, complete with deli meats, cookies and Buffalo wings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

“Compliance costs associated with tracking incremental qualified R&D for the credit are higher than expensing qualified R&D activity to take the deduction,” Watson says.

From Barron's Mar. 14, 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

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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