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expense

[ik-spens] / ɪkˈspɛns /


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In stark contrast, since their introduction from North America in the 19th Century, greys have thrived at the expense of their distant cousins, which compete for habitats and carry lethal viruses.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

I headed to Newark the long way because you can’t expense stupidity.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

“We funded Chinook helicopters to drop more water and foam on the fire. We were doing anything we could, at frankly any expense, to try to minimize the impact of this fire on the community.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

As mortgage rates rise, builders use incentives to boost home sales at the expense of their margins.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

As with the teahouse at the Java Village, no expense had been spared to give the Street of Cairo a glamour of authenticity.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Some would-be visitors have criticised the high price of tickets - as much as three times what it costs to see the Bayeux Tapestry in France - to cover the museum's expenses.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

The Chos are well-to-do, but tenuously so, as their income barely covers their substantial living and educational expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

On Wednesday, Justice announced charges against four people in the L.A. area with misappropriating homeless funds for personal expenses, including PlayStation charges, luxury vacations, vintage car restorations, real estate and more.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

It will allow a 35% to 50% credit on qualified expenses related specifically to post-production work done in California, and unlike the state’s existing film and TV credit, it doesn’t require productions to shoot here.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

They whisper promises they suspect they won’t be able to keep—phone calls, emails, text messages, and even international flights, expenses be damned.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

The company also expects to receive $126 million in pretax tariff refunds for trade duties expensed this year and last.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Using a three-year depreciation schedule means that $300 million in data-center equipment gets expensed at $100 million a year.

From Barron's Nov. 13, 2025

Asked why he expensed Uber rides when he had a take-home car provided by the union, he said the rides were for members doing union business.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2025

But LaPierre conceded he wrongly expensed private flights for his family and accepted vacations from vendors doing business with the nonprofit gun rights organization without disclosing them.

From Seattle Times Feb. 14, 2024

There were at Athens various funds, applicable to public purposes; one of which, and among the most considerable, was appropriated for the expensed of sacrifices, processions, festivals, spectacles, and of the theatres.

From The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 by Various

Dubbed the productivity mega deduction, the government said it will allow for immediate expensing for a broad-based range of depreciable property on a permanent basis.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

They should improve upon the investment provisions in the tax act by making all the expensing provisions permanent, for instance.

From Barron's Apr. 17, 2026

That stimulus includes tax refunds, 100% expensing of business investment, mortgage-backed securities purchases and financial deregulation, they noted.

From MarketWatch Apr. 15, 2026

Instead of expensing capex all at once, it happens over several years.

From Barron's Feb. 11, 2026

By being placed in the centre of the clearing, an assault could not be made without expensing the assailants, and the spring always assured to the garrison the great requisite, water.

From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper




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