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as in pocket
coffers plural
available money
let me see what's in the household coffers and I'll get back to you about making a donation
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as in to deposit
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Recent Examples of coffer
Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 28 May 2025
Mega-rich crypto backers and companies, critical of the SEC’s law-and-order approach to crypto under President Joe Biden, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump’s campaign coffers last year.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The new country needed roads, towns and schools, but with coffers drained by war, there was no money to pay for them.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Noun
State campaign finance records show Wu has $2.2 million in her campaign coffers.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 28 May 2025
Mega-rich crypto backers and companies, critical of the SEC’s law-and-order approach to crypto under President Joe Biden, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump’s campaign coffers last year.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
Hoosiers might remember much talk of Indiana's surplus and reserves during the COVID-19 pandemic era, when these coffers reached record high levels of $6 billion at one point.
—Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The new country needed roads, towns and schools, but with coffers drained by war, there was no money to pay for them.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffer
Noun
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Due to the superior difficulty values of his skills on vault, Hong clinched an automatic bid to compete at the 2025 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia.—
Caroline Price,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Edwards rarely tires of watching back footage of the feat: his electric speed down the runway, the bounding strides of his jumping action, and the enormous final vault into the sandpit.—
George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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During that game, the Sun Devils’ defense also did its share, chasing Texas QB Quinn Ewers out of the pocket throughout the game and forcing Longhorns’ kicker Bert Auburn to miss two of three field goals.—
Andy Frye,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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In addition to the cheddar cheesy béchamel sauce, cubes of cheese are pushed into pasta mix before baking, creating extra gooey pockets of cheese.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Bidders also must deposit $10 million in escrow to enter the auction.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Of those, $14.5 billion was deposited in bank accounts or GAESA’s own financial institutions.—
Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
6 Aug. 2025
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Buffs have been made to various maps in terms of monster density, chests, number of rare and magic monsters, essences, strongboxes, shrines and all of this is without specific Waystone or Tower modifiers.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Another artifact reflecting the sharp divides between rich and poor is an elaborate 800-pound steel strongbox that would have been used to store money—a great deal of it—in the home.—
Teresa Nowakowski,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2023
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The class-action settlement includes a $149 million cash fund for the first breach and a $28 million payout for the second breach.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
16 Aug. 2025
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That, by the way, doesn’t mean these are bad funds—quite the contrary.—
Michael Foster,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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And that’s exactly what New Heights – hosted by Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce with his brother, Jason – was banking on when the idea to have Taylor announce her new album on the show was hatched.—
John Cassillo,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Still, the Mets were banking on Montas, Clay Holmes, Sean Manaea and Kodai Senga to improve after the deadline passed.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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That’s when filing opens for the 2026 midterms, meaning new congressional districts would have to be set by that point.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Soon the sun would wrest control, everything set by then in stone.—
Kiran Desai,
New Yorker,
3 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Copyright © 2025, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. All rights reserved.—
Sean Clancy,
Arkansas Online,
7 Aug. 2025
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All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Coffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffer. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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