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Recent Examples of sawbuck
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.
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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
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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Kim measures loudness via a descriptive scale, shifting the seemingly objective audiogram from an individualizing register into a personal one.—
Mara Mills,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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Margie is the one that came up with a lot of what makes Maker’s Mark, well, Maker’s Mark.—
Gina Pace,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The state has given the region millions of dollars to aid homeless people and public data show that Caltrans has boosted sweeps in recent years.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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States could lose thousands of jobs — including 10,900 jobs in Arkansas — and billions of dollars in economic output under potential Medicaid and food aid cuts, a new estimate finds.—
Alex Fitzpatrick,
Axios,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The 35-year-old bagged 12 centuries and 35 fifties in ODIs and had the highest score of 164 against New Zealand at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2016.—
Manasi Pathak,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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This mine looks like something out of the fifties because it was started in 1955.—
Antonia Hitchens,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Musk has pushed for tens of thousands of federal layoffs as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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The decades-long presence of tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Europe, since the end of World War II, has also played an important deterrent role against possible adversaries that might seek to attack Europe, including Russia.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The official pocketed the 25 C-notes and wrote out the permit.—
Jack O’Connor,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2024
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Contrast doesn't get much better than that short of a pricey OLED panel, a noteworthy achievement for a monitor that costs less than a C-note.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
31 May 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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He’s not cracked reps with the second team with Hill getting all the work when the twos take over.—
Paul Dehner Jr.,
The Athletic,
9 Aug. 2024
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The tactile quality of the characters was modeled after stop-motion, including animating mostly on twos (one image for every two frames) for rough movement.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There are plenty of companies buying houses for cash these days.—
KC Property Group,
Kansas City Star,
23 Mar. 2025
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At the end of 2025, Manchester United would have run out of cash.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Sawbuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbuck. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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