Thesaurus results for EXPENSES

expenses

noun

plural of expense

as in costs

a payment made in the course of achieving a result they spared no expense in building the house of their dreams

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Recent Examples of expenses Koppie reported raising exactly enough to cover his campaign’s expenses of less than $3,000 from July through September, most of it out of his own pocket. — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026 The analysis did not separately calculate the administrator’s share of those expenses. — Natalie Jones, Baltimore Sun, 28 Oct. 2026 The health benefits it is meant to finance aren’t one-time expenses, after all. — Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026 The analysis also found that a staffing plan combining Livermore and Red Feather Lakes elementary schools could feasibly cut per-pupil expenses by half. — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 However, given the company's future commitments for computing power that have yet to hit its expenses, Anthropic will have to continue accumulating cash through fundraising or generating profits to fulfill its obligations. — Leslie Picker, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026 Viewed this way, protections such as immutable backups and isolated backup networks, often cut for budget reasons, look less like expenses and more like insurance against days of downtime. — Michael Wu, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 If a governor does not opt in, that state's taxpayers can still make donations to SGOs and receive the tax credit, but families in that state won't qualify for scholarships or vouchers to pay for educational expenses. — Cory Turner, NPR, 20 Oct. 2026 The plan must follow rules set by Medicare, such as limiting out-of-pocket expenses and covering all services covered by traditional Medicare. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026

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The elective program involves reimbursements of certain development costs, as well as code relief for projects that meet certain eligibility standards, said senior planner Ben Rhoads.

— Marc Hayot, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
The Post measured affordability by comparing what a basic family budget costs in each county with what households there earn.

— Amy L. Wong, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026

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According to the district’s chief business officer Gerardo Castillo, Sac City Unified’s initial report included only its 2025-26 expenditures and left out spending from 2024-25.

— Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
However, skeptics are getting more vocal in their concerns that returns on AI investment won't justify the capital expenditures.

— Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

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