ledgers

plural of ledger
as in records
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 ledgers If Wall Street already runs on ledgers, what can tokenization do for it? — Federico Sendra, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 Thanks to the rise of this offshore world in recent decades, tens of trillions of dollars have simply disappeared from ledgers around the globe, slipping into a world that is largely untouchable and untraceable. — Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026 The Big Ten also leads in the all-important financial ledgers when money matters to everyone. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 Myriad ledgers record artworks and exhibitions alongside the income that sustained Saar and her then-young daughters — Alison, Lezley and Tracye — after her 1970 divorce from Richard Saar. — Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026 Investigators in New York also obtained detailed ledgers of the gang’s bribe payments, which were referenced extensively in the Rocha indictment. — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 13 July 2026 Along with collaborating with other team members, duties include managing ledgers and overseeing financial accuracy. — Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026 Distance a joist spans between the support beams and ledgers. — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2026 The app turns bank transactions, cash spending and cryptocurrency holdings into colorful, easy-to-scan charts instead of dense ledgers. — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 1 July 2026
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Noun
  • The New York Giants actually won a Super Bowl after a 9-7 regular season and there have been five NFL teams since 2010 that have made it to the postseason with losing records, including last year's Carolina Panthers.
    — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Stroud was pronounced dead in the Sam’s Club parking lot, according to Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s records.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • To pay for this labor, inmates claim that individuals outside of prison are depositing thousands of dollars into the commissary accounts of those serving the rapper.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • By many accounts, Glass is a friendly, obliging collaborator, and his music—fruitfully self-effacing, rarely complex enough to saturate or overwhelm the listener’s attention—behaves the same way.
    — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The documents show details for only one part of Phoenix’s portfolio, and do not include assets in retirement accounts or stakes held in companies through mutual funds, corporate bonds and other securities, the accountants confirmed.
    — Allegra Goodwin, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Consider a bank using AI to read documents for small-business loans.
    — David Pralong, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • There's hours and hours and hours of quotes and statements about that.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
  • In opening statements, the prosecution said recovering the gun was not necessary to getting a conviction, but the defense said its absence showed the prosecution’s case was weak.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Mercury opposes Chiron across your personal and shared resource zones, making questions about expenses, debt, or contributions feel more personal than the numbers suggest.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2026
  • To close deals, some US homebuilders are resorting to price cuts and mortgage rate buy downs to attract buyers, squeezing profit margins that are already compressed by high raw material, labor, and financing expenses.
    — , CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Ledgers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ledgers. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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