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  • past participle of spend.
  • past tense form of spend.
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spent

[spent] / spɛnt /


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The hospital association calculates that SEIU-UHW has spent nearly $125 million on local and statewide initiatives since 2012.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Mountcastle spent 24 years as a prosecutor in the Western District of Virginia.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Sale's England core have nearly all spent significant stretches on the treatment table and been unavailable for selection.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Investors spent years treating Chili’s like an aging casual-dining chain.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

But Clare supposed, counting back the All Hallows’ Eves he’d spent huddled in his bed with moss stuffed in his good ear, he’d been in Deadwood for at least four years.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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