as in dollars
a U.S. currency bill representing 100 cents
it must take a whole lot of clams to buy a car like that
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Recent Examples of clams
New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2025
Bring to a gentle boil, then add the clams.
—Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
The menu is a wonderland of seafood, from clams in white wine to seafood soup with shrimp clams and mussels.
—Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
Du identified bristleworms, gastropods, clams, tubeworms and other organisms living in the extreme depths, supported not by sunlight but chemosynthetic microbes drawing energy from methane and sulfide seeping through the ocean floor.
—New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2025
Bring to a gentle boil, then add the clams.
—Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
The menu is a wonderland of seafood, from clams in white wine to seafood soup with shrimp clams and mussels.
—Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clams
Noun
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A couple of hundred dollars is cheap insurance compared to a major water damage bill.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2026
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Some clerics control enormous charitable foundations worth billions of dollars through donations from followers and budgets from the state, while others operate modest local mosques with minimal resources.—
Narges Bajoghli,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Tickets often cost less than a hundred bucks.—
Skye Sherman,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Jan. 2026
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Three million bucks from the Silicon Valley luminary (who’s actually registered to vote in Florida).—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
13 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Passive atmospheric water generator MIT engineers invented a revolutionary passive device that harvests clean drinking water from desert air without electricity.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Jan. 2026
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In addition, Wynn harvests its own herd of American Wagyu from Grazing Star Farms and breaks down primals in its in-house butcher shop.—
David Morris,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Nov. 2025
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“Clams.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clams. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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