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a book that a company uses to record information about the money it has paid and received
The accountant went over the company's ledgers at the end of the fiscal year.
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Recent Examples of ledger
Chicago evened the ledger two weeks later — in a most improbable and extraordinary fashion.
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Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Yet foreign policy has never been only a ledger of advantage.
—Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
For accountants and financial firms used to paper ledgers, spreadsheets were both thrilling and terrifying.
—Paula De La Cruz, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
Printers began to heavily advertise products like ledgers and account books specifically ahead of the new year.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2025
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Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Yet foreign policy has never been only a ledger of advantage.
—Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
For accountants and financial firms used to paper ledgers, spreadsheets were both thrilling and terrifying.
—Paula De La Cruz, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
Printers began to heavily advertise products like ledgers and account books specifically ahead of the new year.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ledger
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Rose emphasized the importance of the dig, as Chinese American cowboys were often overlooked in the historical record, despite having a big economic impact.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The company launched 21 missions last year, setting a new Rocket Lab record.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The cemetery has been thrust into the spotlight after a Lancaster County man was accused of harvesting sets of human remains in the middle of the night, hoarding skulls, bones, and corpses, and then offering some of them for sale on his social media accounts.—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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The buyer called the number, prompting House officials to investigate and discover that multiple phones ordered under Southerland’s account were unaccounted for, prosecutors said.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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Crawford also argued Berrios made multiple inconsistent statements about what happened.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
25 Jan. 2026
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NuPhy claims the entire NODE range is as much a design statement as a computer keyboard.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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There’s an urge to reconnect with our heritage, and people are undertaking ancestry pilgrimages, combining boots-on-the-ground investigation into family trees and searching for documents in town halls, with discovering the places our ancestors used to call home.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Department of Justice last month sued the clerk of the Fulton County superior and magistrate courts in federal court seeking access to documents from the 2020 election in the county.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Ledger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ledger. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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