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Recent Examples of C-note
In 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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for C-note
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Documents reveal a dominant energy lobby that spent tens of thousands of dollars currying favor with Indiana lawmakers.—
Brittany Carloni,
IndyStar,
23 Aug. 2025
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Kennedy has also overseen tens of millions of dollars in cuts to federal funding for research on autism, including its environmental causes.—
Sharon Lerner,
CNN Money,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The professional message that has always been drilled into her head is that consumers ages 20 to 40 are the ones to target.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
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The most significant one comes from the Attorney General of Louisiana, Liz Murrill.—
Dina Kaur,
AZCentral.com,
23 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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.—
David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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In most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This is not something that people cared about as much in the fifties.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Aug. 2025
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As many as three-quarters of all teen-agers now wear braces at some point—up from thirty per cent in the eighties and five per cent in the fifties.—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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According to the briefs the property was bought by Merrell Brothers, a biosolids management company which had injected the land with tens of millions of gallons of biosolid.—
Peter J Reilly,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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These lawsuits have cost the county tens of millions of dollars over the last few years alone.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Evangeline picks up an orange that one of Hank’s hillbillies drops, perhaps because in Alaska during winter that’s like finding a fiver.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2024
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Now a lot of Main Street is boarded up, even the fancy stores, although there’s no shortage of places to drop a fiver on a cup of coffee.—
Murr Brewster,
The Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jan. 2022
Noun
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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.—
Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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All the twos and threes and ones converged among the skeletons, still avoiding eye contact.—
Clare Sestanovich,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
Noun
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The alternative is the Tier 3 cash payment option, which will be a share of the settlement after administration costs and claims are received.—
Cheryl V. Jackson,
IndyStar,
14 Aug. 2025
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Since the poll’s inception in 1998, the average cash gift left by the Tooth Fairy has increased 285% from $1.30 to $5.01 per tooth.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“C-note.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/C-note. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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