1
as in to pay
to hand over or use up in payment
I always end up spending too much money at the mall
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2
as in to consume
to make complete use of
the town has already spent its budget for snow removal, and it's only January
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3
as in to waste
to use up carelessly
spent all his energy on impractical schemes
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Recent Examples of spend
Steadily, though, the city is also spending less on its own.
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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
Prior to joining Neon in 2023 as VP of Media, Altschuler spent five years at A24.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2026
The State Department did not respond to a request for comment on the White House meeting, but Rubio has repeatedly briefed lawmakers since the conflict with Iran began at the end of February and has a strong relationship with the Senate owing to his time spent as a member of the upper chamber.
—David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 13 Apr. 2026
Beyond the five plants ordered to stay open, the administration spent $175 million on upgrades to extend the lives of seven other plants.
—Matthew Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
Prior to joining Neon in 2023 as VP of Media, Altschuler spent five years at A24.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2026
The State Department did not respond to a request for comment on the White House meeting, but Rubio has repeatedly briefed lawmakers since the conflict with Iran began at the end of February and has a strong relationship with the Senate owing to his time spent as a member of the upper chamber.
—David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 13 Apr. 2026
Beyond the five plants ordered to stay open, the administration spent $175 million on upgrades to extend the lives of seven other plants.
—Matthew Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spend
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Last June, Hill was ordered to pay Bauer more than $300,000 for violating settlement terms.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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Rams boss Les Snead and Chiefs leadership tandem Andy Reid and Brett Veach don’t seem hindered by obstacles either, despite later draft slots and paying future Hall of Fame quarterbacks.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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That’s why David Gallo’s setting, a vista of a fragile boarding house nearly consumed by the rising, sun-blotting, industrial landscape of Pittsburgh, works so effectively here.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Investigators suspect one Georgia fire was sparked when an aluminum party balloon touched live power lines; that blaze has consumed 50 square miles, twice Manhattan’s size.—
Emilie Megnien,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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When the Broncos cut Greenlaw, the 49ers wasted no time in bringing him back to pair with middle linebacker Fred Warner in hopes of reviving one of the NFL’s top linebacker tandems.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Cucurella’s red card was the seventh of their nine so far in 2025-26, and the two games featured chances wasted in front of goal and moments where the defence got easily exposed by direct play.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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The casting has always managed to feel diverse, but in a guileless, incidental way, giving the appearance of multicultural inclusion without espousing any explicitly progressive viewpoints.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2026
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Inning-ending calls have been overturned, giving hitters another opportunity that, in some cases, has led to game-changing home runs.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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The long hours of immersion in cold water and the strain of swimming fully clothed through turbulent waves toward the tantalizingly near shoreline must have drained the last bit of endurance from him.—
Jim Hoagland,
Outdoor Life,
30 Apr. 2026
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Xefco One Australian startup is trying to clean up one of fashion’s more draining problems.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Educators were fired for making insensitive comments about him on their personal social-media accounts; a firefighter in Toledo lost his job for posting a derisive eulogy on Facebook; various airline employees were suspended for disparaging Kirk online.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2026
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Gray added that both players agreed to lose the game in exchange for $10,000 to $15,000 in payments each.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Repole is exhausting, but never exhausted.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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But within a few years, they were exhausted from constant touring with occasional bickering.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
29 Apr. 2026
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Gas peakers — plants designed for short, high-output bursts — are now being co-located with data center campuses specifically to absorb these inference spikes that baseload plants can’t respond to fast enough.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Apr. 2026
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Your digestive microbiome acts as a gatekeeper in deciding what are nutrients to be absorbed and what are toxins to be excreted, Choden said.—
Donna Vickroy,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Spend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spend. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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