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Recent Examples of fiverEvangeline 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
The firms and governments that treat CCU as a strategic imperative today will be the ones shaping tomorrow’s markets.
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Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Since pivoting from black and pinto beans to roasted and ground ones, Niccol has been trying to reverse Starbucks’s falling sales by returning to its coffeehouse origins.
The South Korean workers' treatment stands in stark contrast to the experiences of tens of thousands of Mexicans, Venezuelans and Guatemalans who face months in jail-like detention centers before being forcibly deported.
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Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
Speaking at an Africa climate summit, Ruto said climate inaction was costing tens of thousands of lives, compounding development challenges for the world’s poorest nations after massive international aid cuts.
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.
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Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
All the twos and threes and ones converged among the skeletons, still avoiding eye contact.
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.
This agreement aims to bolster collaboration between the two nations' trillion-dollar tech sectors, enhancing opportunities for businesses and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Jarrett Renshaw,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
Economic response The trillions of dollars in revenue earned annually from the region’s oil and gas exports are strategically invested in global assets, which partially leverages the region’s soft power to secure influence in the world’s key decision-making centers.
Her visit to Rogers comes 13 days after hundreds of Arkansas farmers met with staff members from the state's congressional delegation in Brookland in Craighead County to describe their economic status.
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Cristina LaRue,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
Nor does the executive order bar any federal agency from continuing to offer its services, websites, and materials in Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, or hundreds of other languages spoken across the country.
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.
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