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Recent Examples of paper money
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.
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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
The device reads text and recognizes faces and objects such as buses, street lights and signs, and paper money.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2016
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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
The device reads text and recognizes faces and objects such as buses, street lights and signs, and paper money.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paper money
Noun
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Lutzenkirchen’s next goal, after gaining support and dollars from government organizations, is to get more private companies to buy-in.—
Doug Turnbull for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
AJC.com,
22 Feb. 2026
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In both districts, a significant expense is hundreds of millions of dollars in uncompensated care.—
Arthur E. Palamara,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Feb. 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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Fortunately, today, Luna and Chiron are supporting your efforts to review boundaries, discuss shared bills, and generally keep the focus on fairness.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Mar. 2026
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The plane, belonging to the Bolivian air force, was transporting money to La Paz, and images on social media showed people rushing to collect the bills scattered at the crash site, while police in riot gear tried to disperse the crowd.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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Alas, greenbacks are hardly available to people such as Tamara Mendoza, 65, who lives in the working-class Valle district.—
Mery Mogollon,
Los Angeles Times,
30 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
Noun
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Manager Craig Counsell wants Shaw to keep getting those type of non-routine plays in the outfield, especially ones that require him to communicate in real time during the sequence with Crow-Armstrong.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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Over the course of a few hours, the smaller bubbles empty into larger ones, until the fluid coalesces into a single cavity.—
Clare Watson,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Feb. 2026
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Speaking on behalf of hundreds of thousands of filmmakers worldwide.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Feb. 2026
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Talarico Positions Himself as Underdog Speaking last week at the University of North Texas in Denton before hundreds of supporters, Talarico cast himself as the underdog in the race.—
Jack Fink,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
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It might also be criticized for saying nothing about whether any or all of that money should be rebated to the countries that paid the money and the companies that experienced price increases for their products as a result of higher tariffs.—
Cal Thomas,
Arkansas Online,
24 Feb. 2026
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The money has funded Guitars for Schools, which has provided instruments made by El Cajon based Taylor Guitars to 131 schools across San Diego County.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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If no one wins the jackpot, the cash prize will keep ticking up.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026
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Americans have been spending serious cash on their trucks and sport utility vehicles, with the average transaction price above $49,000 in January, according to Kelley Blue Book.—
Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Paper money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper%20money. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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