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as in clusters
a number of things considered as a unit
a bank of telephones set up for the telethon
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as in deposits
to put in an account
she always banks half of her paycheck
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Recent Examples of banks
Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
27 June 2026
Officials said Friday that a group of 50 volunteers had joined the effort to look for Kinney along the banks of the lake, adding that on-and-off rain hindered the search, according to WSAZ.
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James Cirrone,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
SoFi offers up to $3 million in additional FDIC insurance through its participating banks.
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Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
27 June 2026
Earlier this year, as his nomination and confirmation were playing out, the general counsels of the regional banks conferred over how easily reserve bank presidents could be removed by a majority vote of the Board of Governors, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Jonnelle Marte,
Fortune,
27 June 2026
The White River remains a big draw, too, though Stephenson notes that public access points along the banks are becoming increasingly scarce.
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Jamie Siebrase,
Denver Post,
26 June 2026
Will the aforementioned quartet be a little extra motivated to show out this weekend on the banks of McCovey Cove?
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Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
26 June 2026
The financial services industry also backs the legislation, which would offer banks safe harbor and regulatory clarity to offer banking products and services to marijuana operators.
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A.j. Herrington,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Rivers overflowed their banks and parts of the central coastal region were buried under mud, the Red Cross said in a report a year later.
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Uriel Blanco,
CNN Money,
26 June 2026
Joseph Duarte,
Houston Chronicle,
21 Mar. 2026
The group banks its seventh champ total.
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Pamela Bustios,
Billboard,
4 Nov. 2025
To them, bank lending has multiplicative qualities whereby Bank A rents $100,000 from a saver, lends out $90,000 to a borrower who then banks the money at Bank B, only for Bank B to lend out $81,000, only for the borrower to bank the $81,000 at Bank C that lends out $72,900.
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John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
The agency states these incidents can occur due to the overheating that power banks and similar devices experience as a result of a process called thermal runaway.
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Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
27 June 2026
Officials said Friday that a group of 50 volunteers had joined the effort to look for Kinney along the banks of the lake, adding that on-and-off rain hindered the search, according to WSAZ.
—
James Cirrone,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
SoFi offers up to $3 million in additional FDIC insurance through its participating banks.
—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
27 June 2026
Earlier this year, as his nomination and confirmation were playing out, the general counsels of the regional banks conferred over how easily reserve bank presidents could be removed by a majority vote of the Board of Governors, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Jonnelle Marte,
Fortune,
27 June 2026
The White River remains a big draw, too, though Stephenson notes that public access points along the banks are becoming increasingly scarce.
—
Jamie Siebrase,
Denver Post,
26 June 2026
Will the aforementioned quartet be a little extra motivated to show out this weekend on the banks of McCovey Cove?
—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
26 June 2026
The financial services industry also backs the legislation, which would offer banks safe harbor and regulatory clarity to offer banking products and services to marijuana operators.
—
A.j. Herrington,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Rivers overflowed their banks and parts of the central coastal region were buried under mud, the Red Cross said in a report a year later.
—
Uriel Blanco,
CNN Money,
26 June 2026
Verb
Four minute into the game, Pop Isaacs banks a 3-pointer to put the Aggies ahead 8-4.
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Joseph Duarte,
Houston Chronicle,
21 Mar. 2026
The group banks its seventh champ total.
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Pamela Bustios,
Billboard,
4 Nov. 2025
To them, bank lending has multiplicative qualities whereby Bank A rents $100,000 from a saver, lends out $90,000 to a borrower who then banks the money at Bank B, only for Bank B to lend out $81,000, only for the borrower to bank the $81,000 at Bank C that lends out $72,900.
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John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for banks
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This medium-sized, rounded tree is appreciated for its fragrant white flower clusters in mid-to-late spring and year-round features.
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The first chapter of the AI investment cycle — the infrastructure buildout of GPU clusters, data centers, and networking fabric that drove NVIDIA's stock up several hundred percent and established the semiconductor complex as one of the decade's defining trades — is not over.
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The parking lot outside Rome’s Stadium of the Marbles on Thursday had rows upon rows of Vespas of all makes from the past eight decades.
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After returning from the front rows of Miami Swim Week, The MD Effect founder Matt Dillon says this season's biggest shift is swimwear designed to move effortlessly from beach to bar.
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At the time, certain teams wore BLM patches and stenciled the BLM logo onto the pitcher’s mounds.
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Regular mowing can also disrupt ant mounds.
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More specifically — and without spoiling a story that piles the twists as high as the corpses — Pine's an ex-British soldier pulled from his porter duties and recruited to surveil a ruthless arms dealer, Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) staying at the hotel.
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The result piles more pressure on Starmer, the least popular prime minister since records began, according to some polls.
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The lightweight cream deposits a subtle wash of color, and blends tracelessly to create a fresh-faced, no-makeup-makeup finish.
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This is one in which the user deposits cash that serves as its’ purchase limit.
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Smaller batches typically mean more experimentation — the kind of one-off lagers, seasonal releases and limited tap-only pours that don’t make sense to package and ship across a wide distribution footprint.
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The cookies are made fresh daily in small batches with simple ingredients.
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However, La Ruche takes a different approach and, rather than spreading its limited floorspace across a conventional layout, stacks its living spaces vertically like a tower.
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Alphabet investors had bought a capital-light cash machine, and the plan stacks equity dilution on top of more than $100 billion of debt raised over the past year, including a sterling bond round in February.
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Observers on the ground have also noticed what appear to be solar arrays extending from Shenlong, based on analysis of telescope imagery.
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At that time, engineers were racing to piece together the Link satellite from a mix of structural components, fuel tanks, solar arrays, thrusters, and robotic arms designed to grab onto Swift more than 200 miles above the planet.
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“Banks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banks. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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