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Recent Examples of fiverSince movie-ticket purchases are not necessary, customers can just grab a bucket and a fiver (plus tax), and Netflix and chill with way too much popcorn for however many people fit on your couch.—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 2 Jan. 2026 Evangeline picks up an orange that one of Hank’s hillbillies drops, perhaps because in Alaska during winter that’s like finding a fiver.—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024 Now a lot of Main Street is boarded up, even the fancy stores, although there’s no shortage of places to drop a fiver on a cup of coffee.—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022 The loss represented by the odd pocketed fiver is mainly one of trust.—New York Times, 4 May 2021 Reuters/Simon Dawson Would Brits like a digital fiver?—John Detrixhe, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2020 When the wellness-retreat trend cemented places like Bali, Tulum, and Goa as destinations for nine-to-fivers desperate for a reset, stylish travelers went searching for the next sunny spot.—Corina Quinn, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 June 2019 The man grabbed Thibodeaux's cash out of his hand, found a good fiver and threw the rest back at him.—Anita Chabria, sacbee, 29 May 2018 Unlike most other cities, Birmingham's downtown has no congestion after all the nine-to-fivers clear out.—Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
No one was reported injured by the Wednesday night blaze at the Lehigh Valley Hospital campus in Dickson City, which drew all available emergency medical services within a 50-mile radius, fire officials said.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
In a time where fabled bottles are traded and shelved as trophies, Soo Hoo’s decision to open this one is radical.
As Semafor wrote in 2024, despite having just a small staff of editors, curators, and some journalists with its Apple News podcast, the platform is read by tens of millions of people, who might casually scroll the platform or check out stories via push alerts.
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semafor.com,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
That law, experts say, will starve hospitals in rural and underserved areas of tens of billions of dollars in the next decade.
He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.
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Jack Lang,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.
That’s just me, though, and if an American citizen wants to put a tenner on the Lakers’ likelihood to hire on even more geriatric former stars, then feel free.
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Luther Ray Abel,
National Review,
2 Dec. 2022
Putting down an odd number, such as $10.11 instead of just a tenner, in the closing hours is her lucky tip for beating the masses.
The Game and Fish Commission created the structures from hundreds of invasive red cedars cut from Lake Ouachita's shoreline.
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Bryan Hendricks,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
After the nuptials, hundreds of dyads will renew their vows as part of Love in Times Square, a long-running tradition held by the Times Square Alliance, a neighborhood nonprofit.
For the record, the Aztec Room & Patio can accommodate some 200 visitors, and yes, that 19-foot ceiling is genuine 18-karat--nary a pre-Depression sawbuck was spared when constructing this masterpiece.
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David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
In most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.