paper money

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Recent Examples of paper money Unlike paper money, gold is a physical asset with intrinsic value. Mitch Salchow, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 What was the first country to use paper money? Alex Vance, Parents, 14 Jan. 2025 There has also been cyclicality in views about whether control of paper money promotes or degrades democracy. Kevin Coldiron, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024 Surprising Fact Australia removed the British monarchy from its paper money in 2023, issuing new $5 bills that featured an Indigenous design rather than an image of King Charles III. Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for paper money
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Noun
  • The Associated Press Three European allies provided millions of dollars that the United States was supposed to spend for low-income countries.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Another five hundred billion dollars in cuts were left unspecified.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The program helps low-income households pay utility bills.
    Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Fortunately, there are other bills this legislative session that are promising.
    Eshan Dosani, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That’s the case at Walmart right now, where hundreds of trending pieces of clothing, outerwear, shoes, and accessories are discounted by up to 72 percent.
    Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • With the lubricated ground shifting, at times, nine to 12 inches a week, utility companies shut off electricity, gas and internet for hundreds of homes.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Britain had guns and jails and beer and gobs of money.
    Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • With full visibility of health care prices, companies and unions would also be better equipped to save money on insurance plans and pass down those savings to employees in the form of higher wages and more take-home pay, allowing employees to offset the high cost of living.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In turn, the government must borrow other money from the public to raise the cash needed.
    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.
    Greg Fisher, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The ancients used it as legal tender.
    Larry Light, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Other nations, such as El Salvador, have already embraced Bitcoin as legal tender, but a move of this magnitude from the world’s largest economy is unprecedented.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025

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“Paper money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper%20money. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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