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spends

British

/ spɛndz /

plural noun

dialect a child's pocket money

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Medicare spends more than $100 billion a year on drug benefits.

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He spends most of his waking days in Excel and PowerPoint, building financial models and helping pitch deals to big companies and the bank’s private-equity clients.

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“I think a man spends his whole life-time painting one picture or working on one piece of sculpture,” he reflected.

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If a company spends $50 billion this year to build and fill hyperscale AI data centers, it doesn’t subtract that money from earnings right away.

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