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Pratt’s candidacy comes as many voters have grown frustrated over the lack of progress in cleaning up the streets despite billions of their dollars being spent to get people into shelters and permanent housing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Meanwhile with deep pockets – hundreds of billions if not trillions – and enough time, most experts agree a company could build a copycat of Amazon's e-commerce platform.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

They have invested tens of billions of dollars in hardware to upgrade their militaries and host U.S. bases.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

The cooperation has grown "to such a large scale that it eventually provided the US billions of dollars", Dayan said.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

It took nature hundreds of millions of years to evolve a bacterium, and billions to make a grasshopper.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan