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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The first large-scale venture by Oxy, costing $1.3 billon in the Permian basin of West Texas, is called Stratos.
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Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
State government coffers include several billon dollars that can be accessed for future recovery spending.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
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.
—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
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Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
State government coffers include several billon dollars that can be accessed for future recovery spending.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
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.
—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
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“Billon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/billon. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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