trillion
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German industry has also been supported by the government’s infrastructure and defense spending program, which may total more than $1 trillion over the coming years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The US firm manages more than $1 trillion in assets worldwide, while investing in Aeromexico, Sun Country Airlines and Atlas Air.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even if the tariff money were specifically directed at debt service, it wouldn’t have done much to defray the roughly $1 trillion in interest the government will incur this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The firm processed $3.5 trillion in total trading volume last year and currently averages daily trading volume of $10 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Nobody cares to guess how many people might die, but the potential economic cost has been put as high as $7 trillion.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Public money funded it, private capital scaled it, and trillions in value got built on free protocols.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The gut microbiome consists of trillions of bacteria that live in the digestive system and affect many aspects of health, including the way the body experiences pain.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
As he puts it, natural selection blindly explores a vast “design space”—the trillions of trait combinations a species might have—turning up workable solutions that human designers have learned to borrow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Investors' appetite for all things artificial intelligence has been tested in recent months on concern about elevated valuations and as they question when the trillions pumped into the sector will see returns.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
They’d learned that there were trillions and trillions of stars in the universe, more stars than grains of sand on every beach and desert on earth.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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