shares
Example Sentences
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Hyperscalers have reduced spending on buybacks of their shares and dividends, while increasing capital expenditures on artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch • May 24, 2026
Similarly, but on a smaller scale, Tesla’s IPO was unique for setting aside shares for customers who had taken delivery of the automaker’s first car, the Roadster.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
So to keep him focused, the board issued him one billion shares contingent on his ability to establish “a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
Because of the shares Musk will own in SpaceX, which values itself at $1.25tn, the listing could make him the first-ever trillionaire.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Axel wonders if these are the kinds of things that Emmett shares because Axel asks, or if everyone knows all of this information and it’s something Axel’s missed.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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