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Recent Examples of sawbuck
In most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.
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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
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
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Check out this one that kills germs and is great for use in hospitals, and this one formulated with living cyanobacteria to produce oxygen and capture carbon dioxide.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
23 June 2025
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After all, no one likes to feel rushed or on the spot.—
Colleen Batchelder,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Essentially, stablecoins integrate the U.S. dollar within the blockchain — merging the reliability and stability of fiat with the rapidity, transparency, and programmability associated with crypto.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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In response, its members pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in additional defense spending and deployed tens of thousands of troops to what the alliance calls its eastern flank—countries near Russia’s borders.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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His overseas average in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and England comes to just under 26 with two fifties in 11 Tests.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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Carol Sutton Lewis: In the late fifties, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission were finding new information about a radioactive isotope called Strontium 90.—
Carol Sutton Lewis,
Scientific American,
18 June 2025
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Mamdani’s army of some 42,000 unpaid volunteers are managed by 14 full-time campaign staffers who have for months been getting paid tens of thousands of dollars for that work.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
18 June 2025
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Out of the tens of thousands of independent films made each year, less than 1% of those films receive nationwide theatrical distribution.—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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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
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And then the, the like twos, like the little numbers above, like the, exponential thing is like survivalism and ability to be vulnerable.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
7 May 2025
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Their effective field-goal percentage, a metric that accounts for threes being worth more than twos, never has been 50% against Minnesota.—
Dan Woike,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
Cite this Entry
“Sawbuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbuck. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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