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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
Zahra Nader, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Images broadcast online show queues outside banks as customers tried to withdraw cash.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
In response to the rapidly growing stablecoin industry, payments standard bearer Swift is creating its own blockchain to facilitate transactions between global banks, the Financial Times reported.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Nine riverboats from seven of America's River Cities will line up along the banks of the Ohio River.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025
Central banks are exploring digital currencies, and banks and fintechs are building faster cross-border corridors.
—Chris Maurice, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Third-quarter earnings, which start up the week after next with the country’s largest banks, could decide whether stocks will move another leg higher or give up some of their recent gains.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Other programs, like the Emergency Food Assistance Program and the Commodity Senior Food Program, rely on the USDA to provide food to food banks to distribute, and some banks even receive direct funding from the agency.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Consumers increasingly must realize that con artists are often impersonating banks, government agencies and others in authority.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
John Tamny, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
Afghanistan, like everywhere else today, depends on connectivity for banks, hospitals, airports, government services, and private enterprise.
—Zahra Nader, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Images broadcast online show queues outside banks as customers tried to withdraw cash.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
In response to the rapidly growing stablecoin industry, payments standard bearer Swift is creating its own blockchain to facilitate transactions between global banks, the Financial Times reported.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Nine riverboats from seven of America's River Cities will line up along the banks of the Ohio River.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025
Central banks are exploring digital currencies, and banks and fintechs are building faster cross-border corridors.
—Chris Maurice, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Third-quarter earnings, which start up the week after next with the country’s largest banks, could decide whether stocks will move another leg higher or give up some of their recent gains.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Other programs, like the Emergency Food Assistance Program and the Commodity Senior Food Program, rely on the USDA to provide food to food banks to distribute, and some banks even receive direct funding from the agency.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Consumers increasingly must realize that con artists are often impersonating banks, government agencies and others in authority.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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This recipe piles them on, casting apples — which are starting to appear at farmers markets — and nuts front and center as main characters supported by a chorus of greens.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Sep. 2025
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That’s where the paperwork piles up, court fees skyrocket, and grieving families are forced into bureaucratic limbo for months — sometimes years.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Think of it as one fund, and whatever money everyone deposits into this goes into the investment of the casino.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
10 Sep. 2025
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The new method deposits ultra-thin tin oxide (SnO₂) ETLs at low temperatures, which prevents damage to the perovskite.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Behind its all-glass façade, the home stacks four bedrooms and five baths around an elevator core.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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In the conflict between Hobbes and Rousseau, between visions of primordial humankind as inherently brutal or inherently peaceful, Tsangari stacks the dramatic deck in favor of benign and placid human nature.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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The alum then clumps the smaller, suspended fats together for easy removal.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Banks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banks. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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