paper money

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Recent Examples of paper money The United States in that war started printing paper money not redeemable in gold, and everybody hoarded silver. Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025 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 Earlier rulers had sanctioned paper money, but always alongside coins, which had been around for centuries. IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012 See All Example Sentences for paper money
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paper money
Noun
  • That dollars in circulation declined amid these substantial barriers to production was a statement of the obvious.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Cabinets of hard drives holding thousands of terabytes of digital storage, worth millions of dollars, occupy only about 15% of the building.
    PJ Green September 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But Nshombo quickly suspended the operation days later, saying the bank agents were overwhelmed by the load of banknotes brought forward to be changed.
    JANVIER BARHAHIGA, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Dude confiscated it for greenbacks, melted it down, and buried it?
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Without health insurance, the bills piled up, roughly $24,000.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The tax break allows qualified taxpayers to deduct up to $25,000 in tips a year from their tax bills.
    Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even in earlier decades, the moments that still echo are the ones that felt least rehearsed.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • So while cells in a younger person (that were continuously exposed to estrogen prior to HRT) might benefit from a fresh influx of estrogen, ones that had a break from that estrogen bath might react negatively to it.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Human rights groups, citing concerns over forced confessions, have condemned a wave of hundreds of arrests and warned that the government is using the June conflict as a pretext to escalate repression.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Her visit to Rogers comes 13 days after hundreds of Arkansas farmers met with staff members from the state's congressional delegation in Brookland in Craighead County to describe their economic status.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Corporations love money more than anything, & this will really harm them and force them to do the right thing.
    Amanda Castro Shane Croucher Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Biglari’s core demands were to stop opening new stores entirely, eliminate the development team to save money, and focus exclusively on improving existing store operations rather than expansion.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The associate handed each worker a stack of cash.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Despite having a reputation for being at the cutting-edge of technological trends, cash is king in Japan.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Paper money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper%20money. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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