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Panahi recalled his younger self, who would scrape together pocket money to see a film once every one or two weeks in Iran.
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Thomas Page, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
Society insisted that women were the dependents of men, and working women were conveniently imagined as wives and daughters earning pocket money to purchase lace doilies for their dressing tables.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
The store was its own theatre: overflowing displays of hair clips and necklaces that could turn pocket money into possibility.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
My own first summer job as a kid in search of after-school pocket money was picking cigar tobacco on a Connecticut farm just north of Hartford.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
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Thomas Page, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
Society insisted that women were the dependents of men, and working women were conveniently imagined as wives and daughters earning pocket money to purchase lace doilies for their dressing tables.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
The store was its own theatre: overflowing displays of hair clips and necklaces that could turn pocket money into possibility.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
My own first summer job as a kid in search of after-school pocket money was picking cigar tobacco on a Connecticut farm just north of Hartford.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for pocket money
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“Pocket money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pocket%20money. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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