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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.
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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.
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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.
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Star Tribune,
26 Feb. 2021
And just like that, two sawbucks bought you entry into the annals of Michigan golf history.
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Carlos Monarrez,
Detroit Free Press,
25 June 2019
The sawbuck, which should get its own shot of color and hit streets next spring.
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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
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In the footage, three children appear to be emerging from the rubble one after another, seemingly without major injuries, as rescuers provided assistance.
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Reflective, multilayer shields will block the most heat, and ones with a thicker foam core will work much better than thin ones.
Noun
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Most winners aren't used to handling millions of dollars, let alone the crush of publicity that comes with a Powerball jackpot.
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The total dollar amount that a senior public official can receive from any one source over the annual reporting period ranged from $520 to $630 during Carvalho’s years in office.
Noun
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And what people in that district are exhausted by is a politics that has justified the spending of tens of billions of dollars in killing civilians overseas, while working people are struggling just to do the basics.
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The number of dead was expected to climb, and people reported tens of thousands of missing on independent digital databases.
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This deal is going for under a C-note, so don't hesitate!
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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.
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At the other end of the market, have a Chelsea dual-action pump for a fiver.
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Since movie-ticket purchases are not necessary, customers can just grab a bucket and a fiver (plus tax), and Netflix and chill with way too much popcorn for however many people fit on your couch.
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He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.
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Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.
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SpaceX’s compensation philosophy historically favored equity over cash salaries, so this windfall extends well beyond executives and engineers to include nontechnical staff, entry-level workers and even cafeteria employees.
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If no one wins the jackpot, the cash prize will keep ticking up.
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In the lesser of two humiliations (either change the prices or face a half empty stadium for your biggest European match in 30 years), Forest yielded on Tuesday, knocking a tenner off every ticket two days before the match.
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That’s just me, though, and if an American citizen wants to put a tenner on the Lakers’ likelihood to hire on even more geriatric former stars, then feel free.
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“Sawbuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbuck. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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