How to Use scrip in a Sentence
scrip
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What was the process of actually getting the scrip in front of him?
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2022
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Not bad for a Rays roster that mostly gets paid in company scrip.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 21 May 2026
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Many employers paid not in cash but rather in scrip that could be redeemed for goods at the company store.
—Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2021
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But those vouchers will expire before long, leaving them with worthless scrip.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2020
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Employees were paid with a paper scrip that was good only at the company store.
—Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 11 Feb. 2022
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The name hums with nostalgia, and includes a placid nod to those coal-mining towns where people were paid in company scrip.
—Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
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Then snap a pic of your ’scrip and text it to us, along with your Social Security number and blood type.
—Eric Schulmiller, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2021
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OptumRx should also see higher sales amid drug price inflation and more number of scrips filed.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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Miners were encouraged to spend their money on their employers’ goods because, elsewhere, the scrip was moot.
—Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Aug. 2021
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Guests must buy WildBucks scrip at stations throughout the park to pay for food, beverages and floating lanterns.
—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 22 Apr. 2022
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Hudson began accepting scrip only for payments on charge accounts.
—Paul Vachon, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2021
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Their sessions lasted twenty-five minutes and generally ended with a new scrip to treat his depression.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
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If that happens, then the ticket credits will fly away, leaving tens of thousands of passengers holding worthless airline scrip.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2020
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Sam Hargrave directed and EP’ed off a scrip by David Coggeshall.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 July 2026
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There is also a growing assortment of marginal electronic alternatives, such as the scrip that gets passed around in online games and social networks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
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During the four-and-a-half-month program, filmmakers develop their scrips and network with industry professionals.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
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In December 1930, Rich's went one step better, setting up five booths where Atlanta's schoolteachers could cash their scrip at face value without having to buy anything at the store.
—Jill Vejnoska, ajc, 13 Nov. 2012
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Some innovative communities have even sought to institutionalize local spending by developing local currencies, whereby people exchange dollars, often at a local bank, for local scrip that can be used in local businesses.
—Mark T. Mitchell For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
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Back in the 1930s, coin collectors fueled a speculative rise in the value of the town's wooden scrip, according to Washington state online encyclopedia HistoryLink.
—Gregory Scruggs, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2020
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