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overheads

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plural of overhead

as in expenses

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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

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Room for Disagreement For Oman, Qatar, and Pakistan, these economic and security costs may add urgency in their push to press all sides to a resolution.

— Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
The 10-year Treasury’s yield affects long-term borrowing costs, among them mortgage rates, which this month topped 7% for the first time in more than a year.

— Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026

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In 2011, Kobach was fined $5,000 by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission — KPDC’s precursor — for inaccurately reporting more than $75,000 in contributions and expenditures during the 2010 election.

— Cuyler Dunn, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
While Medicaid expenditures are increasing across the country, Ferrandino says Colorado is spending more of its General Fund on Medicaid -- specifically long-term care -- than all but five other states.

— Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of expenditures

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The district plans to spend $216 million on capital outlays, up from $132 million, including the ongoing Unite U-46 construction projects and the purchase of new buses.

— Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
The Lawrence deal changed the Bengals’ math this offseason, and de facto general manager Duke Tobin spoke before training camp about the future outlays and challenges in completing those deals.

— Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 10 Sep. 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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