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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sawbucks
Noun
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The average team is now worth four to five billion dollars, with the Warriors valued at around twice that.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026 -
This new court filing is a transparent forum-shopping tactic in their scheme to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars from Michael's estate and companies.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Pepsi faced bogus charges for making volume deals that let families buy soda 12-packs for a few bucks — not at boutique pricing of a dollar per can.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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These bucks need to wait in line.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Lightning were the only ones to take advantage of all the power plays, with Point scoring his first of the series to tie the game 1-1 in the first period and quiet the raucous Bell Centre crowd, at least temporarily, allowing Tampa Bay to settle into the game.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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One bag serves three hearty portions, or four measly ones.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There’s an owner whose name’s in there hundreds of times.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Some of the original board members are still involved with the museum, but hundreds more joined the effort, some volunteering, others donating surf boards and memorabilia, and many sharing their stories, including famous surfers from Eddie Aikau, Nat Young, Greg Noll and Donald Takayama.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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These markets, which now amass tens of billions of dollars in bets every month, are a dangerous expansion of gambling.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
25 Apr. 2026
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But a radioactive cloud was wafting across Europe, setting off alarms in a Swedish laboratory nearly seven hundred miles away and slowly sickening tens of thousands of people.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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Sun Pharma plans to fund the acquisition through a mix of internal cash and financing from banks.—
Baiju Kalesh,
Bloomberg,
27 Apr. 2026
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The irregular flow of cash will distort their financial reports and could deepen mistrust that the county has adequate guardrails to properly account for where taxpayers’ money is ending up.—
A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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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 28 Apr. 2026.
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