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we shelled out an obscene amount of money for those concert tickets
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That’s many billions more than how much funding the three-year-old startup, reportedly valued at $18 billion, has raised so far, but CEO Aravind Srinivas claims that venture funds are willing to shell out money to back the transaction.
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Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Among the concerns about the project, which is planned to the southeast of Chatfield Reservoir, is how much the county might end up shelling out and how much private partners will benefit.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
And the marketing gap was clear: Despite Black women shelling out huge sums of money for goods and services, no publication was targeting them in a sincere way.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
And while the office alone might not convince you to relocate to small-town America, the retail giant is still willing to shell out high-paying salaries for competitive tech talent.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2025
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Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Among the concerns about the project, which is planned to the southeast of Chatfield Reservoir, is how much the county might end up shelling out and how much private partners will benefit.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
And the marketing gap was clear: Despite Black women shelling out huge sums of money for goods and services, no publication was targeting them in a sincere way.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
And while the office alone might not convince you to relocate to small-town America, the retail giant is still willing to shell out high-paying salaries for competitive tech talent.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Shell out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shell%20out. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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