legal tender

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Recent Examples of legal tender While coins currently in circulation will remain legal tender throughout the country, retailers may eventually start rounding prices to the nearest nickel to compensate. Keisha Rowe, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 June 2025 Even after production stops, pennies will remain legal tender in the U.S. Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 2 June 2025 But the penny will still remain legal tender, and will still be in use at thousands of retailers around the country for sometime to come. Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 25 May 2025 Other nations, such as El Salvador, have already embraced Bitcoin as legal tender, but a move of this magnitude from the world’s largest economy is unprecedented. Sandy Carter, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for legal tender
Recent Examples of Synonyms for legal tender
Noun
  • McGawley recommends giving children actual cash—bills and coins—as young as age 5.
    Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But the wine, card and cash was not enough — at least according to her friend.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Critics of this approach fear that Title I money could eventually be used in ways that undermine public schools — on private school vouchers, for example.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Anthony, for instance, rushed to the bank and withdrew the money demanded and gave it to someone who came to his home.
    Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Howell, the 45-year-old Charlottean, owns a company that celebrates achievement with coins and tokens that honor every milestone.
    Shane Connuck October 9, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The nation takes the entire cure by eliminating all domestic coins and bills in circulation.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Once again, in adopting a currency board, a country keeps its own currency and central bank.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Memory is the last real currency.
    Sudhir Gupta, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The film looks like a million bucks, has a high pedigree of talent, and mistakes constant poking for conversation, endless buzzwords for a buffet of food for thought, incendiary hypotheticals for insight.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • About a dozen does with some small bucks were coming in and out of the field.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025

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