sawbucks

plural of sawbuck, slang

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sawbucks
Noun
  • Today, a lot of big companies—Softbank, Alibaba, etc—are plowing hundreds of billions of dollars into achieving artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Fees for nonresident buses also go up several dollars.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So there’s a growing industry of alternative easier-to-use flood barriers, ranging from $30 or so to more than a thousand bucks.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • With two of them, the corporate bucks never fully stop with either.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Olsen’s dental team also had to rebuild her jawbone with cadaver bone grafts, wire her jaw shut, remove broken teeth, and stabilize ones that became loose.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The duo poured cups of coffee from a rotation of conventional café spaces, such as Milwaukee Caffé, and unconventional ones, like Savvy Chic, a clothing and homeware boutique in Eastern Market.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • States Say Huge Cuts Arbitrary In the new case, the suing states—led by Illinois and joined by California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and others—say DHS responded to Smith’s ruling by abruptly reallocating hundreds of millions of dollars away from them.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    Nik Popli, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If the target audience includes tens of millions of people who can’t bet legally at home, then there’s less incentive for affiliate fees to be included.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Beyond the county’s litigation over jail deaths and injuries, tens of millions of dollars more have been paid out in recent years over allegations of misconduct and excessive force committed by sheriff’s personnel.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For example, entrepreneurs overall didn’t get a big cash windfall or rely heavily on debt to start their businesses.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Vachon even posed the question of whether working with major brands is all that different from banking on cash rebates that stipulate certain creative conditions, such as having heads of department who come from the countries providing the relief.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
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
Noun
  • Antifa International raises money through standing campaigns on Patreon, FundRazr, and the Action Network, a fundraising platform used to mobilize support for left-wing causes.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The industry's value balloons to at least $3 billion when counting money spent by private schools and in higher education, according to another report from data analytics firm Omdia.
    Tonya Simpson, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Sawbucks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbucks. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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