chips 1 of 2

noun

plural of chip
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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chips

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verb

present tense third-person singular of chip
as in slices

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Recent Examples of chips
Noun
Nvidia is also discussing a separate arrangement involving as much as $350 billion in AI chips for the facility. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026 Made from wood chips and sawdust bound with resin, particleboard can swell when exposed to moisture, while screws and bolts can loosen over time. — Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 14 Aug. 2026 In the offer, consumers get an entrée, chips and salsa and a non-alcoholic drink. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026 Nvidia, the $5 trillion AI infrastructure superstar, just arranged $500 billion in financing from Apollo, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms to bankroll customer orders for its cutting-edge chips. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 Amazon’s growth can be directly linked to its data center chips, with the company disclosing revenue for this part of the business for the first time this year. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 7 Aug. 2026 The tickets were put in a briefcase, and included poker chips and playing cards, both with the team’s logo. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026 While vending machines elsewhere now dispense everything from oysters to high-end jewelry, the subway selection thus far could not be more standard — they’re stocked with your usual assortment of chips, candy, cookies, soda, and water. — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026 Washington would almost certainly respond by tightening access to advanced chips, compute and cloud infrastructure, while building more sovereign AI capacity of its own. — Will Conaway, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chips
  1. cash
  2. slices
  3. money
  4. chops
  5. coin
  6. mashes
  7. bucks
  8. currency
Noun
  • Craig represents the state's Second Congressional District and holds a significant cash advantage in the race.
    — Aki Nace, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Abel opens the wallet Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO Greg Abel, who took over from Buffett at the start of the year, appears determined to put the record cash hoard amassed by Warren Buffett to work on buybacks and stock purchases.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of cash
Verb
  • That line slices the plane into two halves, one of which will contain two corners of the outer triangle (the bottom half in the figure below).
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
  • You may already be accustomed to changing channels frequently since the NFL eagerly slices up its schedule across multiple networks.
    — Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of slices
Noun
  • Johnson was not in the team, the money was on the table, and his valuation was probably more likely to go down from there rather than up.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The trend of hospitals asking for money up front represents a double whammy for patients.
    — Julie Appleby, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of money
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of chops
Noun
  • Canada halted production of its one-cent coin in 2012 and distribution in 2013 after a short transition period, while existing pennies remain legal tender.
    — Brian Delp, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The platform has an immense range of products available for purchase, ranging from rare coins and sports memorabilia to appliances and furniture.
    — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of coin
Verb
  • Starling Marte mashes one The hometown fans, who appeared to be outnumbered among the 24,225 at The K, had something to cheer in the fourth inning.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase.
    — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
Definition of mashes
Noun
  • Cory says soon six more bucks emerged from the cover, plus one doe, all about 100 yards away from the father and son in their elevated stand.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Shares are down fractionally this morning but entered today within a few bucks of their all-time high.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of bucks
Noun
  • The Japanese government's push for pension funds and individuals to invest more in domestic markets is seen as a potential boost for the nation's bonds and currency in the long term.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The currency, meanwhile, has fallen more than 10% from its prewar level, adding to the economic pressure on Iranians.
    — Magdalena Del Valle, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of currency

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