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Recent Examples of paper money
For instance, investors would invest in Union government IOUs and with this money in the Treasury, the Union government printed paper money with nothing to back it but the promise of victory.
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David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
Even kids in elementary school now have their own debit cards, and plenty of today's children may never even handle paper money and coins.
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 30 Oct. 2025
Why Countries May Back Digital Currency Each of the examples above highlights the fact that the problem isn’t the physical object, whether coins or paper money.
—Alex Pron, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The parking kiosks the city plans to use will take credit cards and coins, but no paper money.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
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David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
Even kids in elementary school now have their own debit cards, and plenty of today's children may never even handle paper money and coins.
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 30 Oct. 2025
Why Countries May Back Digital Currency Each of the examples above highlights the fact that the problem isn’t the physical object, whether coins or paper money.
—Alex Pron, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The parking kiosks the city plans to use will take credit cards and coins, but no paper money.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paper money
Noun
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A couple of hundred dollars is cheap insurance compared to a major water damage bill.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2026
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Some clerics control enormous charitable foundations worth billions of dollars through donations from followers and budgets from the state, while others operate modest local mosques with minimal resources.—
Narges Bajoghli,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Queen Elizabeth was closely associated with the tiara, wearing it on numerous occasions throughout her 70 years on the throne, including in depictions of her on some British and Commonwealth banknotes and coins.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
3 Dec. 2025
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The more gold in New Orleans, the more banknotes printed.—
David McWilliams,
Fortune,
16 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Although several House Democrats supported the bills to fund the government, prominent House Democrats on Saturday called on the upper chamber to reject the bill.—
Patrick Maguire,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026
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The latest deadly altercation in the city is threatening to imperil an 11th-hour scramble in Congress to get the last of its appropriations bills passed in less than a week.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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In fact, the ultra-high and extreme energy ones, at the absolute maximum, possess millions of times the energy that the Large Hadron Collider achieves at its maximum.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Jan. 2026
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Coakley makes sure that her troop knows how to make change and how to politely speak to customers, even the difficult ones.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
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In a field experiment with hundreds of consultants, GPT-4 improved speed and quality on some knowledge tasks while performance dropped on other, seemingly similar tasks just outside its strengths.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Jan. 2026
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In San Francisco, hundreds of people gathered for a protest and march to speak out against ICE, with many expressing anger and outrage about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.—
Andrea Nakano,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Nine of the top ten sets by brick count have been released in the last five years, and two of those are still to arrive, namely the LEGO Pokémon Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise, and a yet-to-be announced Lord of the Rings build (my money’s on Minas Tirith).—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Instead, the money inmates pay to buy snacks and other items in the commissary covers the cost, something called the inmate welfare account.—
Jermont Terry,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Janet’s mother, Marilyn, was deeply insecure about having never finished college herself, and—newly flush with cash—offered to pay for four years of her children’s higher education (which cost, on average, $740 in the late 1970s).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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And just in case, she was laid to rest with some local currency, or spending cash, almost 1,000 Kaiyuan Tongbao coins tied to her waist and right leg, as per Arkeonews reported.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Paper money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper%20money. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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