as in bills
a piece of printed paper used as money in the United States
she threw a few greenbacks on the counter to pay for the drinks
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Recent Examples of greenbacks
Countries buying oil did so in greenbacks.
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Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
Alas, greenbacks are hardly available to people such as Tamara Mendoza, 65, who lives in the working-class Valle district.
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Mery Mogollon,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
If Florida State continues to lose games against those teams, greenbacks could start to flow in to help with the buyout.
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Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
That vault of greenbacks comes with a set of expectations from fans, your bosses and the boosters/collectives funneling the nation’s finest athletes into the factory.
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Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Oct. 2025
In an attempt to boost gamer bankrolls, this only occasionally profitable bettor will attempt to stack greenbacks under the lights.
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Brad Evans,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
Dude confiscated it for greenbacks, melted it down, and buried it?
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Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
Alas, greenbacks are hardly available to people such as Tamara Mendoza, 65, who lives in the working-class Valle district.
—
Mery Mogollon,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
If Florida State continues to lose games against those teams, greenbacks could start to flow in to help with the buyout.
—
Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
That vault of greenbacks comes with a set of expectations from fans, your bosses and the boosters/collectives funneling the nation’s finest athletes into the factory.
—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Oct. 2025
In an attempt to boost gamer bankrolls, this only occasionally profitable bettor will attempt to stack greenbacks under the lights.
—
Brad Evans,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
Dude confiscated it for greenbacks, melted it down, and buried it?
—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenbacks
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In the Mandara Spa & Salon on new vessels like Norwegian Luna and Norwegian Aqua, those include an infrared sauna that uses lamps to warm the body, a Floatation Salt Pool, and a charcoal sauna that reaches between 86 and 122 degrees – a facility the line bills as the first of its kind at sea.
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Yet moved by the sense that the medical debts their neighbors faced were deeply unfair, members of Trinity Moravian, no matter their politics, rushed to write $25 or $50 checks to pay off the bills.
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San Diego County should see an influx of new buyers with SpaceX dollars, said Del Mar real estate agent Kristina Quesada, co-owner of the Yost Quesada Team at Douglas Elliman.
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And what people in that district are exhausted by is a politics that has justified the spending of tens of billions of dollars in killing civilians overseas, while working people are struggling just to do the basics.
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One of several bags of cash found inside the home of Mario Rocha during an FBI search of his residence in August 2025, as seen in a photograph contained in a court document.
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But SpaceX is burning cash on its AI businesses, and investors are making a bet that the company will be able to reach profitability in the future.
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If feedback comes from an authority figure, keep your tone steady and translate their notes into a next step.
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Their fix is to let the same model that does the reasoning also curate the knowledge, stored as human-readable notes and organized hierarchically with provenance and a lifecycle so stale plays decay rather than calcify.
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Medora Lee is a money, markets, and personal finance reporter at USA TODAY.
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Nathan quickly discovered that limited money forces difficult choices.
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“Greenbacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenbacks. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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