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Recent Examples of paper money
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.
—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
The device reads text and recognizes faces and objects such as buses, street lights and signs, and paper money.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2016
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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.
—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
The device reads text and recognizes faces and objects such as buses, street lights and signs, and paper money.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paper money
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Messi, for example, has a lifetime deal with Adidas that will comfortably run into hundreds of millions of dollars, while Ronaldo signed a lifetime deal with Nike in 2016.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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With just one season of eligibility remaining, expect Fielder to land with a Power Four program in a deal worth a lot of dollars.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Apr. 2026
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As prices continue to spiral higher while the war boosts demand for cash, long lines formed to withdraw the fresh banknotes, and supplies quickly ran out.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
5 Apr. 2026
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In Saudi Arabia the reigning king, Salman, appears on banknotes.—
Tracy Grant,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Sutton Foster stars as Liza Miller, a divorced Gen X mom with a serious resume gap and tuition bills due for her daughter’s education.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Apr. 2026
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While two of those three bills from Illinois lawmakers would cut off new or expanded budget gap fillers for the city, Pritzker’s latest budget proposal would also essentially reduce another.—
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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Alas, greenbacks are hardly available to people such as Tamara Mendoza, 65, who lives in the working-class Valle district.—
Mery Mogollon,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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If Florida State continues to lose games against those teams, greenbacks could start to flow in to help with the buyout.—
Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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There are some really great ones on the market these days, a huge advancement past the egg crate toppers our parents used.—
Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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Instead, buy mature plants that are known to bloom in April, and opt for ones that haven’t quite started yet.—
Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
3 Apr. 2026
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Pharmaceutical companies must typically invest many years and hundreds of millions of dollars to win approval for a drug; partly for this reason, some promising treatments are never approved, and many arrive too late for people who urgently need them.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Factor in a tax multiplier for those who repeatedly spend past the salary cap, and payroll expenses can include hundreds of millions in taxes.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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In addition to hiring ambassadors, money will also go toward adding staffers in the security operations center, which collects feeds from more than 2,000 cameras, and security guards who are typically law enforcement.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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Flipcause, based in California, was used by thousands of nonprofits nationwide to process online donations, allowing money to be collected on the platform before being transferred to individual organizations.—
Kelly Werthmann,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Without them, some important objects can remain hidden forever; a waste of human effort and money — and much of that sponsorship cash comes from taxpayer funds and the generous gifts of donors who trust the museum to share its collection with its community.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
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Money divested from Israel would be given out as cash gifts so that newly married couples could buy homes.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Paper money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper%20money. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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