as in cash
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
was in the chips after hitting it big in the lottery
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Recent Examples of chips
Jim Edwards, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
Spicy bread-and-butter pickle chips add just the right amount of kick.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2026
Now, multiple dies such as logic chips and high-bandwidth memory are packaged together into one larger chip, like a graphics processing unit, or GPU.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
Her full lineup includes chips and salsa, a jar of dill pickles, string cheese, a veggie tray, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Watermelon Sour Patch Kids, wine, lemon Spindrift, Diet Coke, water and Chomps meat sticks.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
Although these chips haven’t changed in decades, maintaining support for them in modern software isn’t free.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026
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Fortune’s Amanda Gerut reports the company is worried the reputational risk could strain its relationship with $4 trillion chipmaker Nvidia, which supplies Supermicro with chips.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
Spicy bread-and-butter pickle chips add just the right amount of kick.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2026
Now, multiple dies such as logic chips and high-bandwidth memory are packaged together into one larger chip, like a graphics processing unit, or GPU.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
Her full lineup includes chips and salsa, a jar of dill pickles, string cheese, a veggie tray, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Watermelon Sour Patch Kids, wine, lemon Spindrift, Diet Coke, water and Chomps meat sticks.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
Although these chips haven’t changed in decades, maintaining support for them in modern software isn’t free.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chips
Noun
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Dave Walton, a corn, soybean, and hay farmer in Iowa and vice president of the American Soybean Association, said in March that some of his neighbors didn’t have cash on hand last fall to buy fertilizer and were struggling to budget for fertilizer due to high prices.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Building the Xcel Center and investing in a professional hockey team brought in some cash to one corner of the city but did nothing to restore the lost social and human capitals.—
Stephen B. Young,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The map slices through Kansas City, splitting the city’s voters across three Republican-leaning districts.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2026
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Toast 2–4 slices bread of choice (such as country-style sourdough or multigrain).—
Rebecca Firkser,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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In addition to hiring ambassadors, money will also go toward adding staffers in the security operations center, which collects feeds from more than 2,000 cameras, and security guards who are typically law enforcement.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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Flipcause, based in California, was used by thousands of nonprofits nationwide to process online donations, allowing money to be collected on the platform before being transferred to individual organizations.—
Kelly Werthmann,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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During a search of Muñoz's desk, investigators found rare antique coins with a receipt in the name of another dead man that Muñoz investigated in 2022, according to prosecutors.—
Julie Sharp,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Maybe it would be obsessed with 18th-century coin production.—
Amanda Gefter,
Quanta Magazine,
10 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Consider two investors, one who invests $7,500 at the beginning of the year, and another who chops it up into $288 biweekly investments.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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The proposal chops $150 million from the Developmental Disabilities Administration, which battled against the largest budget cut in last year's negotiations.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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However, the only highly visible campaign is that of billionaire Steyer, who’s not only hopping around the state for personal appearances but shelling out millions of his own bucks for television and internet ads.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
8 Apr. 2026
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The current rules allow hunters to take two bucks a year, depending on the circumstances.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Set to John Philip Sousa military marches, the zany spectacle mashes up a night at the Moulin Rouge with a Busby Berkeley extravaganza.—
Rachel Howard,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Feb. 2026
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Cheaper pruners use a blade and anvil — essentially one sharp blade that mashes the branch against a flat surface.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
30 Jan. 2026
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This occurred after tens of thousands of Iranians protested at the end of last year after their currency crashed.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Apr. 2026
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To be sure, cracks in the petrodollar’s foundation is still far from the currency becoming irrelevant.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Chips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chips. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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