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  • noun Plural form of billon.

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Examples

  • What I don't understand the govt would rather spend billons of dollars on fighter jets and museum than fixing our healthcare system.

    Obama: 'Time for talk is over' 2009

  • This is nothing more then a trade study funded to the tune of billons that will never meet any form of budget constrant or imposed schedule. altair, orion, ares are just a bunch of legos in the puzzle that will never be built.

    Orion Slims Down - NASA Watch 2009

  • It appears to me, to make it safe NASA is working on take the Human out of the loop for Launch and Entry/Return at both ends being the earth and moon and spending billons on a frustum and rocket to get there and back.

    A Shift in Policy? Moon Base Axed? - NASA Watch 2009

  • I can mt blame bobby for for being mad his state might lose billons of dollas

    Louisiana governor critical of oil spill response efforts 2010

  • How does one rationalize doling out billons of dollars in bonuses when you have lost tens of billions of dollars and had to be bailed out by Bank of America and by extension the taxpayer?

    Bankers Bonuses xtra 2009

  • Man what could of been done with all those billons over the last 30 years, ahhh well!

    Moon Outpost or Bust - NASA Watch 2009

  • I guess it was O.K. to throw away billons, rather trillions on Iraq War, the biggestt lie in US history, than to take care of our ailing citizens.

    GOP chairman isn't sure who his insurance provider is 2009

  • Man what could of been done with all those billons over the last 30 years, ahhh well!

    Moon Outpost or Bust - NASA Watch 2009

  • How does one rationalize doling out billons of dollars in bonuses when you have lost tens of billions of dollars and had to be bailed out by Bank of America and by extension the taxpayer?

    Archive 2009-02-01 xtra 2009

  • At the same time, AIG is still teetering and is dependent on scores of billons of dollars of federal help.

    Amitai Etzioni: Now: Muscular Communitarianism 2010

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  • JM knows some folk who are human billons.

    March 25, 2010