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[toht-l] / ˈtoʊt l /






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Local authorities are also planning to make £180m of cuts – amounting to about 1% of their total revenue budgets.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

“The prepaid and customer supplied hardware portions of our large AI contracts now total $75 billion,” the company says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

We are planning to withdraw an additional $4,700 per month from our retirement portfolio, giving us a total monthly income of $10,000.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

The total spending for lobbying is calculated by looking at annual expenditure of one million euros or more by 173 companies and industry associations among the 17,501 currently declared in the EU lobby transparency register.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

He has a total “what the what?” look on his face.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein




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