sawbucks

plural of sawbuck, slang

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sawbucks
Noun
  • San Diego County should see an influx of new buyers with SpaceX dollars, said Del Mar real estate agent Kristina Quesada, co-owner of the Yost Quesada Team at Douglas Elliman.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • 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.
    ABC News, ABC News, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • The company was saving a few bucks but ruining its product.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 25 June 2026
  • Lenovo Laptop Deals Lenovo makes some of the most stylish and sophisticated Windows laptops out there, and a Prime Day discount that brings the exceptional Slim 7i Aura Edition down to a thousand bucks is well worth noting.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Despite some large gaps heading into Friday, legislative Democrats and the governor had already closed several other ones.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2026
  • So often, the players on the field are the ones who bear the brunt of the decisions made above them.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • Yimvert Berroteran, a promising young talent, was among the hundreds of people who died, the Venezuelan national team and the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) said Friday.
    Anabella González, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • Temperatures climb after Sunday, with heat indices in the hundreds for multiple days, prompting the National Weather Service to issue an extreme heat watch for Cook County, in effect from Monday through Wednesday.
    Victor Jacobo, CBS News, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • With the passage of Thursday’s law, both sides have agreed to pull their respective measures from the November ballot, halting campaigns that had both parties amassing tens of millions in funding and blanketing the airwaves with ads.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Depending on the lot’s location, a redesign or new build can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
    Beth Livesay, AJC.com, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • One of several bags of cash found inside the home of Mario Rocha during an FBI search of his residence in August 2025, as seen in a photograph contained in a court document.
    Logan Smith, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • But SpaceX is burning cash on its AI businesses, and investors are making a bet that the company will be able to reach profitability in the future.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Our fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The sharks are another story — their flesh is not well regarded and is often given away, while its fins are considered poor quality for the global shark fin trade.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Sawbucks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbucks. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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