pocketbook 1 of 2

as in purse
a container for carrying money and small personal items she pulled some lip balm out of her pocketbook

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What impact this strategy might have on struggling Marylanders’ pocketbooks, however, remains to be seen. Dilnaz Hasim, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2025 The potential for South Korea to be plunged into yet another constitutional crisis is deeply unsettling for a nation longing for a return to stability and the addressing of pocketbook issues. Charlie Campbell, Time, 4 June 2025 Those attacks have profound implications not only for Americans’ health, but on pocketbook issues and the U.S. economy generally. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025 These lawsuit-abuse reforms put money back into the pocketbooks of everyday Floridians. Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pocketbook

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“Pocketbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pocketbook. Accessed 21 Jun. 2025.

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