Example Sentences

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“There’s trillions of dollars looking for really good executives and really good deals. I have no problem raising capital.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Once you've sold a bit, you can start to sell more – and that means potentially trillions of dollars worth of new shares coming to market over the coming months and years.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

We wrote about how older Americans are accumulating trillions in wealth for themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Historically, that conservative approach was seen as prudent, protecting investors from speculative excess and ensuring that index constituents demonstrated operational viability before gaining access to trillions of dollars of public capital flows.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Slipping between millions and billions or between billions and trillions should in this sense be equally funny, but it isn’t, because we too often lack an intuitive feeling for these numbers.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos