billion
noun
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 9 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 12 zeros.
billions
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pluralof billion.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Without billions in funding and a stadium site, the rest is flowery prose, but there is no sense in dismissing any potential bidder a year or two before the bidding opens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
While everyone argues about whether AI will eventually bring about the apocalypse, hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent building the infrastructure underneath it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
ISTANBUL—Turkish authorities rushed to contain the fallout from the implosion of a series of investment funds that held billions of dollars, heaping fresh stress on Turkey’s troubled economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Fifa currently holds billions of dollars in accumulated reserves," it read.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
I imagined that parts of my insides and parts of her insides may have come from the same exploding star, billions of years ago.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
