trillion

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Recent Examples of trillion Breaking it down: The rare earth minerals in question could be worth trillions of dollars in total. Barak Ravid, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025 Further the Trump budget proposals risk exploding the US federal budget deficit; see, e.g., the House budget resolution, which calls for trillions of dollars in additional debt. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025 In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump endorsed the House’s budget bill, which bolsters funding for the border and national security while simultaneously extending the tax cuts implemented during Trump’s first term and slashing trillions in funding for a variety of programs. Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025 In early February 2025, DOGE staffers gained access to the Treasury's expansive payment system, which disburses trillions of dollars annually, and is normally overseen by a small group of nonpartisan Treasury employees. Nik Popli, TIME, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trillion
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Noun
  • Despite raising $20 million via crowdfunding, Hayes points out that that’s a drop compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars more prominent platforms have netted.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The tests signal that both companies are heading closer toward committing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of manufacturing contracts to Intel, Reuters said.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The world is headed toward having a zillion agentic AI agents that do this or that.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • He’s hosted about a zillion seminars on various personal improvement topics for nearly 50 years.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Adam Sandler In his monologue, Conan O'Brien called out Adam Sandler for being underdressed on an evening where everyone from Timothée Chalamet to Michelle Yeoh was wearing a gazillion dollars of diamonds.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
  • These investigations of the guy with the gazillions are going to be gone.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025

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