C-note

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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. 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
Noun
  • Essentially, stablecoins integrate the U.S. dollar within the blockchain — merging the reliability and stability of fiat with the rapidity, transparency, and programmability associated with crypto.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • The Department of Defense, which has consistently failed to account for its hundreds of trillions of dollars in assets, is listed as a priority at the top of the memo.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • But letting this area function as an unregulated encampment helps no one — not the unhoused, the community or the fragile bay ecosystem.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • Urban Egg, Fort Worth Urban Egg, 2828 North Tarrant Parkway one door west of Mister O1, is yet another better-breakfast Colorado chain, this one from Colorado Springs.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • But try that nowadays and the guy will laugh derisively, then pick up your sawbuck between his thumb and index finger, like a piece of filth, and hand it back to you.
    Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • His overseas average in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and England comes to just under 26 with two fifties in 11 Tests.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Carol Sutton Lewis: In the late fifties, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission were finding new information about a radioactive isotope called Strontium 90.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The homes housed unmarried pregnant women as well as tens of thousands of orphans, according to The Associated Press.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
  • While Abu Dhabi is home to most of the country’s sovereign wealth, Dubai has tens of thousands of high-net-worth individuals, characteristics that are helping the country’s aims to become a top financial center.
    Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • And then the, the like twos, like the little numbers above, like the, exponential thing is like survivalism and ability to be vulnerable.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 7 May 2025
  • Their effective field-goal percentage, a metric that accounts for threes being worth more than twos, never has been 50% against Minnesota.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • MrBeast promised the largest cash prize in TV history for a similar winner-takes-all game show; his company was sued for allegedly poor treatment of the contestants during its production.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
  • Since Weltman’s arrival, Orlando has traded majority of their second picks, but only to push them back to future years or for cash considerations.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2025

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“C-note.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/C-note. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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