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Recent Examples of C-noteIn those days, Mike Schmidt had the biggest contract at $2.1 million while rookies were paid $60,000, so a C-note from all your teammates was big money.—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025 The official pocketed the 25 C-notes and wrote out the permit.—Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024 Contrast doesn't get much better than that short of a pricey OLED panel, a noteworthy achievement for a monitor that costs less than a C-note.—PCMAG, 31 May 2024 There are plenty of great options to be had for below a C-note.—Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 30 May 2024 Kopitar, Bergeron, and Pavelski are the only three active NHLers to be over 1,000 for a career but never with a C-note on their résumé.—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023 Such modules get a maker close to a complete class-D amp for about a C-note or less (sometimes substantially less).—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2018
Brown’s descendants, and their spouses, are responsible for pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the community and spending countless hours serving on local nonprofit boards.
Instead of always purchasing plastic water bottles while sightseeing, bring a reusable water bottle with you, like this one from LifeStraw.
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Asia London Palomba,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
Asked directly whether there were points over the last 20 years when moments like this one seemed tenuous, MacLellan brought up the aftermath of the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs.
For the record, the Aztec Room & Patio can accommodate some 200 visitors, and yes, that 19-foot ceiling is genuine 18-karat--nary a pre-Depression sawbuck was spared when constructing this masterpiece.
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David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
In most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.
That kind of skeuomorphism—the design of a digital interface to resemble a physical one, by, for example, adding a faux-metal texture to a calculator app—has been out of fashion for more than a decade, ever since Apple moved away from it in the early twenty-tens.
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Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
The video, which has racked up tens of millions of views on social media, was widely interpreted as mocking the death of Kirk, who was assassinated by a shot through the neck last month.
He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.
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Jack Lang,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.
The biggest, richest, most powerful clubs — the ones that will inevitably be the main beneficiaries if this takes hold — are making far more money than ever before.
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Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
Additionally, Ferguson faced large personal debts after her divorce and was repeatedly criticized for poor money management and lavish spending.
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