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Recent Examples of paper moneyBut a small cohort of the wealthy had been able to buy Treasury bonds during the Civil War when greenback paper money and rapid coining of silver caused inflation.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
26 Apr. 2026 With cashless payments and digital transactions on the rise, whether or not Idaho businesses accept paper money seems irrelevant for many Boise-area residents.—
Hali Smith
april 15,
Idaho Statesman,
15 Apr. 2026 The beans represent coins, the greens they are served with symbolize paper money, and cornbread is for gold.—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 See All Example Sentences for paper money
During that time, the group raised thousands of dollars from the tobacco, gambling, and pharmaceutical industries, as detailed by a Washington Post report.
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Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Oct. 2026
Earlier reports indicated that Elon Musk's SpaceX is planning to raise 10 billion dollars through bank loans and 30 billion dollars via investment grade bonds to finance NVIDIA chip purchases.
Daines and Merkley also want committee leaders to have a one-day fast-track for considering popular bills with strong committee support from both parties that would allow those bills to pass the Senate with a simple majority.
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Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
8 Oct. 2026
Income, bills, savings goals and family expenses shift, and the treat budget should reflect what the household can afford now.
Trump also took an average of 80 days to decide on requests from solidly Democratic states, more than twice as long as for solidly Republican ones.
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Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Oct. 2026
Brands need to decide which trends resonate, which ones make sense to capitalize on and make a new product launch or an entire franchise and which to let go and pass over.
As the hundreds of thousands of people made their way down the narrow roads following the politician, a few rerouted into the industry event, still carrying big flags and with faces lit up with hope.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2026
Like hundreds of others around the country, the school was closed.
The organization, created in 1961 by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, receives no government funding, and raises money through private donations and sales of retail merchandise.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Oct. 2026
With his ring powered up, John flies over and drops off a bag of money as restitution to the waitress Maggie (Hannah Christine Shetler) who lost her family in the Manhunter attack.