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outlaying

verb

present participle of outlay
as in spending
to hand over or use up in payment the nation had outlaid nearly 20 billion dollars on social programs at that point

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  1. spending
  2. paying
Verb
  • Recording a good voiceover can mean finding a narrator, booking studio time, or spending hours trying to get a usable take yourself.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Campaign The two candidates are spending millions of dollars to get elected, and the money is apparent with the high frequency of television commercials, sometimes as often as four times per hour on one station.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of spending
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  • Lee’s fiction, like 19th-century novels, seeks to engender sympathy by paying close attention to the lives of many varied characters.
    — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • That raised their borrowing costs — the US will spend more money this year paying interest on the national debt than on its military — which leaves less to cushion the economic fallout.
    — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of paying
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“Outlaying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlaying. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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