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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paper money
Noun
  • The owner, who had sunk thousands of dollars of her own money into the shelter, turned out to be a fan of his work.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2025
  • In contrast, education freedom is a bottom-up reform that can reverse declining test scores by moving students into better learning environments and ensuring tax dollars go to actual educational activities.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 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
  • Of course, at this point, the S23 and S24 phones are discounted by hundreds of dollars.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 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
  • 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.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
  • So, what are the chances that anyone will be investigated for Hope Florida’s potentially criminal use of public money to fund a political campaign to defeat an amendment to the constitution of the state of Florida?
    Letters to the editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Money isn’t everything Harris raised a ton of cash.
    Amie Parnes, The Hill, 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 30 Apr. 2025.

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