dollars

plural of dollar
as in bucks
a U.S. currency bill representing 100 cents a wad of dollars in his pocket

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Recent Examples of dollars The publication is one of many fighting for a slice of premium Washington ad and subscription dollars. Max Tani, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025 Sanders backed Platner’s campaign, and the senatorial hopeful has raised millions of dollars for his campaign. Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025 Businesses owned by Native Americans or people who identify as Middle Eastern or North African did not receive any city dollars during the study period, or at least not enough to register as a percentage of the total, Bawa said. Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025 The requests come at a fiscally unstable time for the district, which has had to make tens of millions of dollars worth of cuts in recent years to maintain local control. Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025 Lawrence is running for city council on a platform of community safety and responsible spending of taxpayer dollars, among other issues, according to her website. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025 Passed 50 years ago, IDEA doles out billions of dollars annually to states, and then to school districts, which use the money to help pay for special education services. Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025 That’s something developers normally have to do, which is millions of dollars; miniature golf makes no money. Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025 The notional $1,000- $2,000 tariff-revenue checks may be comparable in dollar amount to Biden’s stimulus checks, but Covid dollars and today’s dollars are much different due to the high inflation that’s occurred in recent years, outpacing wage growth. Nino Paoli, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dollars
bucks
Noun
  • His beloved baseball glove; the cashmere quarter-zips his grandma bought him for Christmas — anything to raise a hundred bucks and feed the addiction.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
  • About a dozen does with some small bucks were coming in and out of the field.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Dollars.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dollars. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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