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If the tax turns these high-priced apartments into depreciating assets, prices of smaller apartments will have to rise to make up for it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Elevated capex levels also present the risk of saddling Amazon with depreciating chips and servers that will send expenses soaring in future years.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

As capital expenditures have skyrocketed, controversies have occasionally flared over companies’ moves to extend the useful lives of the assets they are depreciating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

The current wave of protests began after shopkeepers in Tehran went on strike over the rising cost of living and the depreciating value of the currency.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

Here Dad would stop long enough to give his version of a depreciating moue, and hide his face coyly behind an upraised elbow.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey