paper money

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Recent Examples of paper money During this time, China replaced its traditional currency of silver and gold with paper money. Hassan Tayir, CNN Money, 21 May 2025 Pretend money: Purchase fake paper money and roll it up to fit inside the plastic eggs. Erinne Magee, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025 Alexander Hamilton | $10 bill Hamilton is one of two non-Presidents featured on US paper money. Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025 Alexander Hamilton | $10 bill Hamilton is one of two non-Presidents featured on US paper money. Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for paper money
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Noun
  • To make space for four and a half trillion dollars in tax cuts over ten years, the resolution instructs various House committees to find nearly two trillion dollars in cuts to programs that come under their purview.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • In contrast, education freedom is a bottom-up reform that can reverse declining test scores by moving students into better learning environments and ensuring tax dollars go to actual educational activities.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The program helps low-income households pay utility bills.
    Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Fortunately, there are other bills this legislative session that are promising.
    Eshan Dosani, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, at this point, the S23 and S24 phones are discounted by hundreds of dollars.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
  • With the lubricated ground shifting, at times, nine to 12 inches a week, utility companies shut off electricity, gas and internet for hundreds of homes.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • When Sullivan launched his show, there was no money to pay guests, so Robinson agreed to appear for free.
    Pam Windsor, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The foundations raise private money from students’ families and other donors to fill in gaps in programming, supplies and other needs at schools that aren’t covered by state funding.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The alternative is the Tier 3 cash payment option, which will be a share of the settlement after administration costs and claims are received.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Since the poll’s inception in 1998, the average cash gift left by the Tooth Fairy has increased 285% from $1.30 to $5.01 per tooth.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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

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“Paper money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper%20money. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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