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Fair Value Measurements - Changes in Level 3 Financial Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis (Detail) - Contingent Consideration - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2025	Dec. 31, 2024	Dec. 31, 2023
Fair Value, Assets Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation, Calculation
Balance as of January 1	$ 102	$ 106	$ 173
Business combinations	59	77	64
Contingent consideration paid	(22)	(10)	(73)
Revaluations included in earnings and foreign currency translation adjustments	(34)	(71)	(58)
Balance as of December 31	$ 105	$ 102	$ 106

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Fair value measurement with unobservable inputs reconciliation recurring basis liability business combinations.

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Fair value measurement with unobservable inputs reconciliation recurring basis liability contingent consideration paid.

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Fair value measurement with unobservable inputs reconciliation recurring basis liability gain loss included in earnings and foreign currency translation adjustments.

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A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.

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Fair value of financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/1943274/2147482106/820-10-50-3

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-Topic 820
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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-Publisher FASB
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