spender
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has turned the company into a major spender on AI.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Germany has overtaken the U.K. to become Europe’s largest military spender, with its expenditure growing 24% year-over-year to $114 billion, reaching 2.3% of GDP in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Sam Altman says OpenAI’s top token spender uses 100 billion tokens a month — and is not even the world’s leader.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
One wild-card spender in this campaign is retired businessman Bill Bloomfield, who has put $367,093 into an independent campaign on behalf of Melvoin.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Burr’s reputation as a notorious womanizer or as a lavish spender who always managed to stay one step ahead of his creditors did not trouble Hamilton.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Instead, the worst thing has happened: A couple of crafty, thrifty, well-run teams with low payrolls but dynamo management knocked out the spenders to reach the big show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
"We see a lot of the traditional big R&D spenders -- pharma, cars, construction -- cutting back on their R&D spend", he noted.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The idea is partly to reward existing top customers, but also to deepen relationships with people who could become much bigger spenders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
But Prada is playing catch-up in courting top spenders, an area where competitors such as Louis Vuitton, Dior and Chanel have invested for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
All sorts of ridiculous suggestions were made, and the boys offered jumping-jacks and comical toys to the two spenders.
From Two Little Women by Carolyn Wells
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