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Recent Examples of sawbuck
For the record, the Aztec Room & Patio can accommodate some 200 visitors, and yes, that 19-foot ceiling is genuine 18-karat--nary a pre-Depression sawbuck was spared when constructing this masterpiece.
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David Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
In 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
David Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
In 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sawbuck
Noun
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And no one wants to be reduced to a nameless fulfillment partner in someone else’s ecosystem.—
Jason Goldberg,
Forbes.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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Like so many families, and not just Irish ones, United brought him closer to his relatives.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And the company splashed out hundreds of millions of dollars this time last year to grab rights for some NBA games, including some that will air only on Peacock each week.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Instead, the real meat on the bones is secondary tariffs of 100% on importers of Russian energy, such as India and China, who indirectly provide the Kremlin with tens of billions of dollars that finance its war effort.—
Daniel DePetris,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This is not something that people cared about as much in the fifties.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Aug. 2025
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As many as three-quarters of all teen-agers now wear braces at some point—up from thirty per cent in the eighties and five per cent in the fifties.—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
Noun
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For generations, Social Security, which celebrated its 90th anniversary on August 14, has formed the bedrock of retirement income for tens of millions of Americans, and also pays out benefits to disabled people and survivors of deceased workers.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Aug. 2025
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For months, federal investigators have been examining how tens of millions of dollars has been distributed among Hartford nonprofits, some of which play a vital role across the city’s economically distressed north side.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
17 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
16 May 2025
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The official pocketed the 25 C-notes and wrote out the permit.—
Jack O’Connor,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Evangeline picks up an orange that one of Hank’s hillbillies drops, perhaps because in Alaska during winter that’s like finding a fiver.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2024
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Now a lot of Main Street is boarded up, even the fancy stores, although there’s no shortage of places to drop a fiver on a cup of coffee.—
Murr Brewster,
The Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jan. 2022
Noun
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All the twos and threes and ones converged among the skeletons, still avoiding eye contact.—
Clare Sestanovich,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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But in Chicago and other cities, there are quieter operations underway that raise similar legal questions as federal agents pick up people in ones, twos and threes.—
Vernal Coleman,
ProPublica,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The alternative is the Tier 3 cash payment option, which will be a share of the settlement after administration costs and claims are received.—
Cheryl V. Jackson,
IndyStar,
14 Aug. 2025
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Since the poll’s inception in 1998, the average cash gift left by the Tooth Fairy has increased 285% from $1.30 to $5.01 per tooth.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Sawbuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbuck. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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