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Recent Examples of sawbuckIn most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.—PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025 But try that nowadays and the guy will laugh derisively, then pick up your sawbuck between his thumb and index finger, like a piece of filth, and hand it back to you.—Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024 Say, there's an idea: The mall is free, but the greeter will shake your hand for a sawbuck.—Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021 And just like that, two sawbucks bought you entry into the annals of Michigan golf history.—Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019 The sawbuck, which should get its own shot of color and hit streets next spring.—Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2004
During his first term, former President Barack Obama struck a deal with Congress: if Senate Republicans backed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, Obama would support investing billions of dollars to modernize the country’s nuclear weapons.
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Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
Shareholders want the companies to squeeze every dollar out of workers and consumers, on whom their business depends, by using hidden algorithms to increase consumer prices while keeping wages below the state minimum.
Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, tens of thousands of large bugs have descended on Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the North Carolina-Tennessee border, according to the National Park Service.
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Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
25 May 2025
Scores of other pending lawsuits represent potentially tens of millions more in liability exposure.
In those days, Mike Schmidt had the biggest contract at $2.1 million while rookies were paid $60,000, so a C-note from all your teammates was big money.
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Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
16 May 2025
The official pocketed the 25 C-notes and wrote out the permit.
That’s because the Heat shot just 16 of 42 (38.1 percent) on two-point shots Saturday after shooting 26 of 36 (72.2 percent) on twos in Game 2.
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Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2025
Queen, the conference’s Freshman of the Year and first-team selection, drained 2 of 4 3-pointers — doubling his season total — and connected on a few more long twos.
In the next few years, expect to see even more people quietly stacking cash from their living rooms, offering hyper-specific products and services and never worrying about beating the algorithm.
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King Holder,
Rolling Stone,
22 May 2025
Having to pay cash for everything up front has stifled businesses’ ability to grow.
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Taylor Luck,
Christian Science Monitor,
21 May 2025
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