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expense

[ik-spens] / ɪkˈspɛns /


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The company is working to improve its financial profile, cutting costs from the business and issuing an improved operating expense outlook for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Conventional recycling often requires workers or machines to separate plastics by type, adding expense and complexity to the process.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

"They protected the data-centres for American AI companies and the solar farms powering them at the expense of us locals," the face-tattooed environment-conscious farmer told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

“Corporate operations should never come at the expense of children’s health and safety,” Rivas said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

“I see they spared no expense to incarcerate us,” I say.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Then they ask donors to lift restrictions and allow the money to be spent on operating expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

The baseball coach discovered his card was declined when he tried to pay for team travel expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

The fact that they’re not spending as much maintaining their properties may depress their values, but it also keeps their expenses low.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

In Australia, Adams was accused of spending taxpayer dollars on personal expenses.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

Regina reluctantly agreed, but raising enough money for his expenses was, as always, a problem.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

In fact, we estimate permanent expensing for short-lived investments and R&D will lift long-run gross domestic product by 0.7% as investment grows.

From MarketWatch Apr. 7, 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

“Why would you do something to poke the bear by expensing a chair?”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 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 Cooper, James Fenimore




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