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paid (for)

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past tense of pay (for)

as in sprang (for)

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expended

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Before the Iran war, defense contractors were producing only about 620 Patriots and 96 THAAD each year — fewer than half the number expended during a few weeks this spring.

— Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
But the United States has expended much of its stockpile of precision munitions and suffered substantial damage to its regional bases.

— Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026

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