1
: gold or silver heavily alloyed with a less valuable metal
2
: an alloy of silver containing more than 50 percent of copper by weight
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There is debate over what the exact costs of the new debt relief plan will be, but one estimate puts its price tag at around $147 billion, rather than the hundreds of billons of dollars alleged by the states.
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Annie Nova, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024
The video site, which Wojcicki pushed Google to acquire in 2006, generated $8.7 billon in advertising revenue in the second quarter.
—Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2024
Public pension funds have big investment staffs and oversee billons of dollars.
—Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2024
By the late 1970s, Ford had invested $450 million (approximately $1.7 billon in today’s dollars) in these programs.
—Darren Walker, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
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Annie Nova, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024
The video site, which Wojcicki pushed Google to acquire in 2006, generated $8.7 billon in advertising revenue in the second quarter.
—Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2024
Public pension funds have big investment staffs and oversee billons of dollars.
—Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2024
By the late 1970s, Ford had invested $450 million (approximately $1.7 billon in today’s dollars) in these programs.
—Darren Walker, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
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“Billon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/billon. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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