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expense

[ik-spens] / ɪkˈspɛns /


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But getting a child through the education system and into a secure career can involve years of preparation, intense competition and, for many families, considerable expense.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

I headed to Newark the long way because you can’t expense stupidity.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

“We funded Chinook helicopters to drop more water and foam on the fire. We were doing anything we could, at frankly any expense, to try to minimize the impact of this fire on the community.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

For several years now, mortgage rates have been largely stuck between 6% and 7%, pushing up the cost of most Americans’ single biggest expense, housing.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

A local doctor said, “I couldn’t begin to remember how many sick people have received medical attention at his expense, nor how many hungry mouths have tasted of his bounty.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

“I treat them like I’m a contractor that they don’t want to get rid of. So I manage the expenses and the labor as such.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2026

One defendant received $118 million in government funds, large amounts of which he allegedly diverted for personal expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

It will allow a 35% to 50% credit on qualified expenses related specifically to post-production work done in California, and unlike the state’s existing film and TV credit, it doesn’t require productions to shoot here.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

These expenses can add up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars each month.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

Maggie’s future schooling and living expenses were to be secretly funded by Elisha.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

“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

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

Although not perfect, the law’s expensing provisions fixed a major flaw in the U.S. tax code.

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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