specie

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Noun
  • Foreign governments are dumping US Treasury bonds to stabilize their currencies amid the energy shock and financial volatility triggered by the Iran war.
    Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 19 May 2026
  • The Bank of Japan was reported to have intervened in currency markets in late March and early April after the yen weakened past the politically sensitive 160 level, as surging oil import costs widened Japan's current account deficit and stoked fears of a depreciation spiral.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • The author, a professor named Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, proved to have a knack not just for provocative legal essays but for coinages, too.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • People have been called pedants since the early modern period—pedante is a fifteenth-century Italian coinage for a professional teacher of Latin literature and rhetoric—but have been acting pedantically for millennia.
    Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Mohamed had paid for the appointment in cash.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • OpenAI was burning cash and needed significantly more for computing resources.
    Ashley Capoot,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • That report shows the amount of money spent on sportsbook television advertising is down from a peak in 2021 and the industry airs far fewer commercials than the pharmaceutical sector.
    Luke Connors, Washington Post, 19 May 2026
  • Their profession alchemizes money and labor into art, then back to money.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • Defenseman Olen Zellwenger, also 22, had a goal and assist in his first two playoff games and Olympic gold medalist Jackson LaCombe, 25, led the team in ice time — and was third in points with 10 — in his first postseason.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
  • That water is heated by magma below and shoots back upward, bringing with it precious minerals such as copper, zinc and gold, along with the iron and sulfur found in the snail’s shell.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Retail prices for coins and bars typically include premiums above the spot price.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • There is another half of this coin as well, as Bungie also indicates that a pure PvP mode may be coming.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • The spinoff will feature Beth Dutton riding horses more frequently, a change from her character's past trauma.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • Perhaps the most controversial coaching change of the offseason came in Buffalo, as the Bills moved on from Sean McDermott and elevated Brady, the offensive coordinator, to take his place.
    Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Grand Hyatt’s bread is buttered with business travelers, and the wide desks and plentiful power outlets around the room confirm that this outpost is a prime example of that.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026
  • Because the bran is intact, the bread has a noticeable but not unpleasant mild grit.
    Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
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“Specie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specie. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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