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Among the new rules is that learners must spend at least six months getting driving experience before they can take a practical test.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

You can set limitations and thresholds, so we can say, ‘I don’t want you to go over $3,500 in spend this month,’ and then it actually cuts it off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Assuming you aren’t too busy rereading Patel’s children’s book, my colleagues have some ideas for how to spend the rest of your evening:

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

The bears of Katmai spend summer and early autumn gorging themselves on salmon as they look to bulk up ahead of a long winter of hibernation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The two of us would spend long hours sitting there beside Marlene, out in some barn or shed, as she munched her hay or straw—whatever we had found for her.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Prada’s top customers spend about €7, or about $8, with the brand for every euro it spends entertaining them, Guerra said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The real median annual income for households headed by someone 65 or older is close to $60,000, and the average older household spends roughly that amount annually.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

At the gym, she spends 10 minutes on a stair-climbing machine then 35 minutes using weights and machines to strengthen the thighs, hips and lower back.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

An out-of-work copywriter on the job hunt himself, Jones spends hours every day hunting for scams on LinkedIn and other sites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

She always drinks way too much Sprite when we come here and then spends 10 percent of the time peeing.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

It notes that the "indefatigable campaigner" spent her final years as a "vociferous advocate of assisted dying".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

US journalist Evan Gershkovich spent nearly 500 days in a tiny Russian jail cell.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The attorney spent much of his time explaining that he couldn’t remember or didn’t know specifics—or dancing around questions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

I spent years looking for a magic pill.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

In between we were kept standing at rigid attention on the soggy parade ground where we had spent the night.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“Including the GDP revisions that we’ve now seen, including the consumer spending data, all of this needs to go into my real-time assessment of where we go from here,” Kashkari said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

At Columbia University, he chaired the statistics department before spending five years as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Consumer spending was robust, but there was a mild business recession in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

To close a deficit of more than $200 million that it announced last year, USC froze hiring, laid off roughly 1,000 workers, eliminated merit raises, sold unused buildings and cut discretionary spending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Incorrigibles had become expert at spending their days wisely, all thanks to an invention they called “the to-doawoo list.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood