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overheads

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plural of overhead

as in expenses

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Non-interest expenses came in below expectations, which is encouraging, but the $112 million beat versus the FactSet consensus didn't make up for all of the top-line softness.

— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
The complaint accuses Love Renaissance of improperly diverting money from Walker’s touring, recording, marketing, and merchandising budgets, while charging excessive company expenses to those accounts in bad faith.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026

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That flexibility, whether enabled by SSTs or other controls, could lower costs and speed up grid connections.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Anger about rising inflation, from energy prices to housing costs, has led to clashes in Italy and Portugal.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of costs

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Between Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta, over $720 billion of capital expenditures is projected to be spent this year, most of it on AI infrastructure, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

— Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
But the attorney general said the expenditures have been worth it, salvaging billions in state funding that the administration had sought to claw back, and protecting the rights of the state and its residents.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of expenditures

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By comparison, total spending jumped 102% in that span, with outlays on social security and employment up 207%, science and technology up 137%, and defense up 141%.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
This time, France's large pension outlays and its need to rein in public spending leave little room for maneuver.

— Makini Brice, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of outlays

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The funding will come from federal disbursements sent to the county under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a program geared towards post-COVID relief.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026
This is done to comply with the SSI payment schedule, which sets disbursements for the first day of each month and moves them earlier when that date falls on a holiday.

— Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

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