expenses

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 On expenses, McDonogh reiterated the bank’s 6%-7% full-year outlook from the second-quarter earnings call. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026 Residents were forced into lengthy battles with their insurance companies to prove contamination and get help paying for the cleanup and additional living expenses. Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 This includes expenses like gym memberships, nutrition plans, GLP-1 medications and sports for dependents, according to Paxton’s campaign. Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2026 The program isn’t meant to make medication cheaper but to help manage monthly expenses. Michelle Marchante september 15, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026 That reality can make education savings feel out of reach, especially when families are balancing everyday expenses, changing budgets and uncertain plans for the future. Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026 Organizers entered the weekend facing financial constraints that required them to scale back expenses. J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2026 Asked whether his family had been forced to cut back on everyday expenses, Jahangiri’s answer was immediate. ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 Resonance’s system accounts for everything—depreciation, maintenance costs, even thread expenses. Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expenses
Noun
  • House Democrats will challenge Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on rising costs at a Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, according to an internal memo shared with Semafor.
    Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Unlike headcount, token costs are elastic, usage-based and variable, even for the same prompt.
    Hemant Kapadia, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • In the eyes of rival executives, Moreno opted for the flashy purchase over steady, incremental expenditures.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • When scaled across hundreds of millions of users, those fractions add up to massive daily expenditures.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Expenses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expenses. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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