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Recent Examples of scripGeiger, who owns around 72.4 percent of the beauty group, offered shareholders a choice between $4.35 per share in cash and a scrip alternative, which would allow shareholders to receive 10 shares in the new private entity for every share held.—Denni Hu, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019 Miners were usually not paid in U.S. currency but in company scrip, which could only be redeemed at the company store.—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024 Telecom major Safaricom, NSE’s biggest scrip by average capitalization, lost 36.4% of its value, adding to foreign investors’ fears.—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023 If that happens, then the ticket credits will fly away, leaving tens of thousands of passengers holding worthless airline scrip.—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2020 See All Example Sentences for scrip
The Trump administration is threatening billions of dollars in federal funding to elite universities over their policies on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
Whether preparing a soufflé or closing a multi-million dollar deal, focusing on each step can set you up for long-term success.
Also still pending this year is a measure to memorialize Jan. 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day in Florida and a bill that would require the state insurance plan to cover supplemental examinations, such as an MRI or ultrasound, when mammograms indicate questionable findings.
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Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Apr. 2025
More: Could a GOP bill prevent some married women from voting?
In turn, the government must borrow other money from the public to raise the cash needed.
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Doug Criscitello,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Skilled thieves target specific homes and literally knock on the door and otherwise check to find a time when nobody is home, then the crooks burglarize the home quickly looking for jewelry and cash.
The Bears traded away a massive amount of draft currency, sending the 49ers a four-pack of picks — Nos. 3, 67 and 111 in that year’s draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board to draft Mitch Trubisky, a quarterback at North Carolina.
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Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
Their faces have appeared on currency, Streets bear their names, children learn about them in school.
Youngkin in 2021 raised $2.2 million in contributions, but the millionaire investor bolstered his war chest with $5.5million of his own money, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.
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Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
By juggling school and a job at a lice clinic, one young woman found a way to finance her education
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Cailin Hawn has worked at a lice clinic for five years in an attempt to make and save money for school.
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