paper money

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Recent Examples of paper money Alexander Hamilton | $10 bill Hamilton is one of two non-Presidents featured on US paper money. Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025 This began to change in the late 1800s for a variety of reasons, in part due to coins being replaced with paper money and held within financial institutions, but also as women began to become more independent from the home. Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025 Unlike paper money, gold is a physical asset with intrinsic value. Mitch Salchow, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 What was the first country to use paper money? Alex Vance, Parents, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for paper money
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Noun
  • Many American medical scientists have found their research dollars dried up which has left me looking to European universities.
    Neil Mahto, Baltimore Sun, 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
  • If companies needed money from the markets, the markets had their sources of capital appropriately drawn from those with ample surplus funds, including banks and bond issuers with the populace’s money.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • In October, the project got a boost when the Department of Transportation under President Joe Biden approved Miami-Dade for $389 million toward the Northeast Corridor, money requiring congressional approval that’s still pending.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • MrBeast promised the largest cash prize in TV history for a similar winner-takes-all game show; his company was sued for allegedly poor treatment of the contestants during its production.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
  • Since Weltman’s arrival, Orlando has traded majority of their second picks, but only to push them back to future years or for cash considerations.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The talk of the town has been nation-state adoption of Bitcoin, from El Salvador’s experiment with Bitcoin as legal tender to recent actions in the United States with the new Administration.
    Roger Huang, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • In Florida, the state Senate passed a bill back to the House of Representatives that would establish silver and gold as a legal tender, reported Florida Politics.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025

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“Paper money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper%20money. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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