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Recent Examples of paper money
The beans represent coins, the greens they are served with symbolize paper money, and cornbread is for gold.
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Vogue,
30 Dec. 2025
Even kids in elementary school now have their own debit cards, and plenty of today's children may never even handle paper money and coins.
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Melissa Willets,
Parents,
30 Oct. 2025
Why Countries May Back Digital Currency Each of the examples above highlights the fact that the problem isn’t the physical object, whether coins or paper money.
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Alex Pron,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
The parking kiosks the city plans to use will take credit cards and coins, but no paper money.
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Vogue,
30 Dec. 2025
Even kids in elementary school now have their own debit cards, and plenty of today's children may never even handle paper money and coins.
—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
30 Oct. 2025
Why Countries May Back Digital Currency Each of the examples above highlights the fact that the problem isn’t the physical object, whether coins or paper money.
—
Alex Pron,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
The parking kiosks the city plans to use will take credit cards and coins, but no paper money.
—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for paper money
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paper money
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Proponents of the authorization note that the $155 million investment arrives four years after a severe drought in the Sacramento Valley in 2022 had cost local communities hundreds of millions of dollars and roughly 1,500 jobs.
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The wall is under heavy scrutiny for the billions of dollars being dedicated to it when border crossings are at their lowest in decades.
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The prohibition against living people appearing on currency dates to 1866, when Congress took action after a Treasury official, Spencer Clark, printed his face on banknotes.
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At a news conference toward the end of Blatter’s reign, a prankster showered him with banknotes.
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Days after Miller shared details about the car accident, which occurred north of Joplin, Missouri, a GoFundMe was set up to pay for hospital bills.
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Congress has repeatedly considered bills with stronger requirements, many of which have garnered bipartisan support.
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Countries buying oil did so in greenbacks.
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Alas, greenbacks are hardly available to people such as Tamara Mendoza, 65, who lives in the working-class Valle district.
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The replacement panels do not include some of detail in the earlier ones, such as a map of slave trade routes and a timeline on slavery.
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The long Independence Day weekend means a big major yes to all of the above—especially hunting for deals because there are so many good ones to be had.
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Some students going back to school in August can kiss their cellphones goodbye during the day, thanks to one of the hundreds of new laws going into effect in Georgia on July 1.
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Much of the same was seen in Pacoima, where a hundreds of people were spotted dancing and watching fireworks at the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Van Nuys Boulevard.
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For the superstar whose private jet is tracked, whose every appearance is documented and whose movements become global headlines within minutes, an arena transformed into a private world may be the closest thing to privacy that money can buy.
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Multiple network insiders said Tuesday afternoon that no clear front-runner has emerged for James, but that money will not drive the decision.
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One of several bags of cash found inside the home of Mario Rocha during an FBI search of his residence in August 2025, as seen in a photograph contained in a court document.
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But SpaceX is burning cash on its AI businesses, and investors are making a bet that the company will be able to reach profitability in the future.
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“Paper money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper%20money. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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