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are expending

  • present progressive of expend.

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And yet, today, researchers and companies are expending huge efforts on making magnets more powerful and efficient than ever before.

From BBC Apr. 4, 2024

In early January, the governor’s budget office mandated that all universities report the amount of money they are expending on diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

From Washington Post Mar. 5, 2023

"It's really pretty extraordinary, and our own sense is that they are not capable of indigenously producing what they are expending at this stage," she said.

From Reuters Dec. 4, 2022

The move stands in sharp contrast to other big tech companies that are expending work home home policies.

From The Verge May 14, 2020

It is useless to exaggerate the value you put upon my conquest, that I tell you plainly; you are expending too much on hope, I am not able to respond.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell