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Recent Examples of sawbuck
For the record, the Aztec Room & Patio can accommodate some 200 visitors, and yes, that 19-foot ceiling is genuine 18-karat--nary a pre-Depression sawbuck was spared when constructing this masterpiece.
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David Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
In most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.
—PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
But try that nowadays and the guy will laugh derisively, then pick up your sawbuck between his thumb and index finger, like a piece of filth, and hand it back to you.
—Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Say, there's an idea: The mall is free, but the greeter will shake your hand for a sawbuck.
—Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
And just like that, two sawbucks bought you entry into the annals of Michigan golf history.
—Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019
The sawbuck, which should get its own shot of color and hit streets next spring.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2004
David Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
In most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.
—PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
But try that nowadays and the guy will laugh derisively, then pick up your sawbuck between his thumb and index finger, like a piece of filth, and hand it back to you.
—Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Say, there's an idea: The mall is free, but the greeter will shake your hand for a sawbuck.
—Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
And just like that, two sawbucks bought you entry into the annals of Michigan golf history.
—Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019
The sawbuck, which should get its own shot of color and hit streets next spring.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2004
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sawbuck
Noun
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Mahle views its range-extenders as far more than simple independent add-on, looking at them as one component in a holistic driving architecture in which smaller batteries can replace larger ones while still alleviating, rather than intensifying, range anxiety.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Sep. 2025
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This one was a 12-yard slant to Stefanovich on a third down to invoke running time for the fourth quarter.—
Matt Roy,
Boston Herald,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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All amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar.—
Celia Fernandez,
CNBC,
20 Sep. 2025
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The potential bill for those companies going forward could be in the billions of dollars.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Amid the military build-up, tens of thousands of Palestinians continued to leave the city, which was estimated to have a total of about one million inhabitants - many of them already displaced multiple times - before Israel announced its plans for a ground incursion.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
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The hepatitis B vaccine has been credited with saving tens of thousands of lives since physicians began administering it at birth more than 30 years ago.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
17 Sep. 2025
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In those days, Mike Schmidt had the biggest contract at $2.1 million while rookies were paid $60,000, so a C-note from all your teammates was big money.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
16 May 2025
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The official pocketed the 25 C-notes and wrote out the permit.—
Jack O’Connor,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Evangeline picks up an orange that one of Hank’s hillbillies drops, perhaps because in Alaska during winter that’s like finding a fiver.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2024
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Now a lot of Main Street is boarded up, even the fancy stores, although there’s no shortage of places to drop a fiver on a cup of coffee.—
Murr Brewster,
The Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jan. 2022
Noun
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He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.—
Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The prize, granted by the Culture Ministry’s Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), carries a cash award of €30,000 ($35,100).—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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Organize liquidity needs Even your cash needs should be thoughtfully allocated and not all lumped into one savings account or money market fund.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
20 Sep. 2025
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That’s just me, though, and if an American citizen wants to put a tenner on the Lakers’ likelihood to hire on even more geriatric former stars, then feel free.—
Luther Ray Abel,
National Review,
2 Dec. 2022
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Putting down an odd number, such as $10.11 instead of just a tenner, in the closing hours is her lucky tip for beating the masses.—
Alice Newbold,
Vogue,
31 May 2022
Cite this Entry
“Sawbuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbuck. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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