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as in clusters
a number of things considered as a unit
a bank of telephones set up for the telethon
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as in deposits
to put in an account
she always banks half of her paycheck
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Recent Examples of banks
Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
The Fed's benchmark sets the rate that banks charge each other for overnight lending, but also affects almost all consumer borrowing and savings rates.
—Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
The answer increasingly looks like multilateral development banks.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Neighbourhood On the banks of the Waikato River, 350 meters upstream to the overflowing Huka Falls, and part of the broader Lake Taupō region in the central North Island of New Zealand.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Interest rates are set by a majority vote of the 12-member Federal Open Market Committee, which is composed of seven Fed governors and five of the 12 presidents of regional Fed banks.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 30 Jan. 2026
Search Funds For The Future One industry that knows the challenges facing local SMEs is regional banks.
—Japan Contributor, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Plenty of companies, including some of the most important Wall Street banks, think competition with China is a cost to contain rather than a cause to embrace.
—Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Fewer airlines, fewer meat processors, fewer insurers, fewer banks.
—J.d. Hayworth, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2025
To them, bank lending has multiplicative qualities whereby Bank A rents $100,000 from a saver, lends out $90,000 to a borrower who then banks the money at Bank B, only for Bank B to lend out $81,000, only for the borrower to bank the $81,000 at Bank C that lends out $72,900.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
Maduro’s ouster is a blow to that partnership that could leave Chinese banks facing billions in unpaid Venezuelan debt.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
The Fed's benchmark sets the rate that banks charge each other for overnight lending, but also affects almost all consumer borrowing and savings rates.
—Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
The answer increasingly looks like multilateral development banks.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Neighbourhood On the banks of the Waikato River, 350 meters upstream to the overflowing Huka Falls, and part of the broader Lake Taupō region in the central North Island of New Zealand.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Interest rates are set by a majority vote of the 12-member Federal Open Market Committee, which is composed of seven Fed governors and five of the 12 presidents of regional Fed banks.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 30 Jan. 2026
Search Funds For The Future One industry that knows the challenges facing local SMEs is regional banks.
—Japan Contributor, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Plenty of companies, including some of the most important Wall Street banks, think competition with China is a cost to contain rather than a cause to embrace.
—Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Fewer airlines, fewer meat processors, fewer insurers, fewer banks.
—J.d. Hayworth, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
The group banks its seventh champ total.
—Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2025
To them, bank lending has multiplicative qualities whereby Bank A rents $100,000 from a saver, lends out $90,000 to a borrower who then banks the money at Bank B, only for Bank B to lend out $81,000, only for the borrower to bank the $81,000 at Bank C that lends out $72,900.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for banks
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Blackwood’s absence piles it on with several layers of awful.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
4 Jan. 2026
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Then Carol piles everything on her plate into a rough slice of avocado toast, mashing them together in an improvised layer.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
5 Dec. 2025
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Because of the low reactivity of fluorine, when KL-50 deposits fluoroethyl groups onto the cells, the crosslinks are slow to form.—
Isabella Backman,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2026
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Designed to melt instantly into skin, all of this is spun into a lightweight cream that deposits medium, buildable luminous matte coverage meant to last for up to 16 hours.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
23 Jan. 2026
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At the end of lunch, the entire crew scoops their leftover food into a compost bin, and then neatly stacks their containers on top of each others.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Jan. 2026
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Instead of playing Tetris with all the food storage containers in your fridge and freezer, invest in a set that stacks nicely.—
Bridget Reed Morawski,
Architectural Digest,
7 Jan. 2026
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However, sometimes the abnormal IgA (the antibody that clumps up and causes problems) does run in families.—
Brandi Jones,
Health,
15 Jan. 2026
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Cocoa powder often clumps in its container.—
Erin Merhar,
Southern Living,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Banks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banks. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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