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sawbucks

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plural of sawbuck, slang

as in dollars

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The source of that money matters as federal law guarantees candidates lower broadcast rates for television advertising than super PACs, allowing Talarico's campaign dollars to go further in buying TV exposure than outside Republican groups.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
India is 鈥渋ncreasingly important for our capital,鈥� Al Muhairi said, citing its market size and 鈥渕assive infrastructure program鈥� that is driving tens of billions of dollars of investment into the world鈥檚 most populous country.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026

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Then, one cool afternoon toward the end of October, two bucks strolled out into the corn 200 yards down the fence.

— Al Dawson, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
In a new series, Kristine Saves You Money, consumer investigator Kristine Lazar shopped around to find deals and found ways to save a few bucks.

— Kristine Lazar, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

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As a major bloc that has been able to apply pressure, the union has thwarted several efforts by Mamdani’s predecessors to ban the attraction, as hundreds of carriage operators make a living operating the buggies.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on Monday into an overnight cyberattack on refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 13 Oct. 2026

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Saudi Arabia spends tens of billions of dollars on defense every year, but is struggling to protect key assets such as airports, refineries and pipelines from missiles and drones fired by Houthi militants from Yemen.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
The standalone streaming service features tens of thousands of TV episodes from cable networks like HGTV, Food Network and TLC.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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For founders sitting atop a mountain of stock, that beats selling shares, paying tax, and then giving away the cash.

— Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
Strategists in both parties said that this redistricting scramble has changed how donors are being approached for state legislative races — rarely the first places where the largest political funders send their cash.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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Our fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
The sharks are another story — their flesh is not well regarded and is often given away, while its fins are considered poor quality for the global shark fin trade.

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025

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