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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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This one is peachy-pink in color, dry and fresh and delivers a tart red-fruit profile: think currants and pomegranate.—
Lana Bortolot,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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In an email to her colleagues, Cabrera, a former immigration official, complained that the arrest team had an administrative warrant, not a judicial one.—
Daniel Bice,
jsonline.com,
30 July 2025
Noun
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Costs keep rising, a growing portion of the public questions the value of a four-year college degree and the Trump administration has threatened to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding of campus research.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
30 July 2025
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The city gets millions of dollars every year in federal funding that pays for road projects and police and fire services.—
Sharon Coolidge,
The Enquirer,
30 July 2025
Noun
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As many as three-quarters of all teen-agers now wear braces at some point—up from thirty per cent in the eighties and five per cent in the fifties.—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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The name McKim, Mead & White evokes the image of three portly, middle-aged men, because the most frequently reproduced photograph of the trio was taken around 1905, when all three partners were in their fifties.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
Noun
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The Sameer Project usually feeds tens of thousands of people each week, but in recent days the situation in Gaza has become so dire that its staff cannot find sufficient amounts of food to keep community kitchens operational.—
Dan Sheehan,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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The opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year has become a source of political leverage that Beijing won’t easily give up.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
24 July 2025
Noun
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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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All the twos and threes and ones converged among the skeletons, still avoiding eye contact.—
Clare Sestanovich,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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But in Chicago and other cities, there are quieter operations underway that raise similar legal questions as federal agents pick up people in ones, twos and threes.—
Vernal Coleman,
ProPublica,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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From a financial engineering perspective, the deal structure, which combines $45 in cash per share with 2.2005 Palo Alto shares, provides CyberArk shareholders with immediate liquidity while maintaining upside exposure to the combined entity's success.—
Steve McDowell,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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The first-place finisher also receives $5,000 in cash for business investment, as well as business coaching, social media help, and marketing support.—
Sofia Joseph,
jsonline.com,
2 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Sawbuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbuck. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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