Definition of dollarnext
as in buck
a U.S. currency bill representing 100 cents a wad of dollars in his pocket

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Recent Examples of dollar Denmark recently pledged to give Greenlanders an additional quarter of a billion dollars in health-care and infrastructure investments. Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026 Dozens of people in Minnesota have been charged and convicted with stealing millions of dollars of taxpayer money for government programs. NBC news, 11 Jan. 2026 And that’s a relatively conservative average, considering weddings in certain markets—and for certain demographics and aesthetics—can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026 Bubble fears surrounds stocks within the Magnificent 7 — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla — as well as Oracle and Softbank and other tech companies’ multi-billion-dollar investments in the unrelenting buildout of humungous data centers to power their AI systems. Bob Woods, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dollar
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Noun
  • Tickets often cost less than a hundred bucks.
    Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
  • All in all, sitting at $20, this hydrating Lip Treatment gives you bang for your buck.
    Akili King, Essence, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Police then found a key piece of evidence in a garbage can in a park near the one where Etzler was attacked.
    Mason Leath, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • While it’s forecasted that AI will create 170 million new roles (while eliminating 92 million existing ones) by 2030, businesses are still struggling to recruit, as workers are not being trained and reskilled at the necessary pace.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026

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“Dollar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dollar. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.

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