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something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
all the gold in the world won't buy happiness
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Recent Examples of gold
Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 18 Dec. 2024
The chic glass bottle and gold top gorgeously decorates any sink.
—Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Jenni Reid, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
The edge of the star was traced with gold glitter, most of it long since rubbed away.
—Greg Borowski, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Mota’s other designs include Mobile, distinguished by a pattern of swirling gold, and Lucky Us, a reinterpretation of the auspicious clover sporting regal appliqué borders.
—Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 18 Dec. 2024
The chic glass bottle and gold top gorgeously decorates any sink.
—Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Adjective
The central bank of the world’s second-largest economy has resumed gold purchases, while a weak macroeconomic outlook — especially in a potentially escalating U.S. trade war — is driving safe-haven demand among local investors.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
The edge of the star was traced with gold glitter, most of it long since rubbed away.
—Greg Borowski, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
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There is also cash, lots and lots of cash (a man is seen counting money, another scene shows a person vacuuming up money off the floor, yet another shows two people physically fighting as money is thrown about nearby).Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
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Financial records proved this cash reimbursement was an untrue claim by McDougal, the court documents concluded.Jose R. Gonzalez, Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2024
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Above, the bronzed, gilt metal candelabra was sourced via Paris’s Marché Puce.Katherine Burns Olson, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2024
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The 2-year gilt yield had risen from around 4.2% on Wednesday to 4.415% in the Friday session.Jenni Reid, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
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The sales of the Hawk Tuah coins also illustrate the power the internet has to lift people from obscurity to international stardom.Sean O'Driscoll, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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People who own Bitcoin and other forms of digital coins are not refunded when a crypto exchange collapses in the same way depositors are at banks.Christopher White, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
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Later Daters is another take on dating for golden singles, but with, in my opinion, more nuance, heart, and personality than The Golden Bachelor.Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
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With its advent are chased from our minds unholy impulses, and in their stead reign supreme and golden fruitings of the present, and the diamond seedings of the great future.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Dec. 2024
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Combining the money of Robinson and Achiuwa at this deadline, which would be about $20 million in salary, is more than enough for New York to bring back a big who could help bolster the current group.James L. Edwards III, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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That money likely belonged to the town’s wealthy mayor, who was known to keep coins stashed around his property.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
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This week: a gilded apartment in an 1800s Romanesque Revival mansion.Clio Chang, Curbed, 10 Dec. 2024
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My eyes gleefully flittered among the many gilded furnishings, opulent light fixtures, and damask wall treatments.Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 7 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile the naira currency languishes at record lows against the dollar.Chinedu Asadu, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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The Trump administration can foster adoption of crypto with regulatory clarity of the digital currencies.Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Gold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gold. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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