dime
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The executive’s investments could one day be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and he won’t have paid a dime in ordinary-income or capital-gains taxes on their growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“This is about Lilly’s ability as a U.S. company to turn on a dime to increase manufacturing,” said a former Novo employee and longtime industry strategist, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Hence her latest caper, which begins with a mission to track down a vintage desk and turns on a dime into a heist tied to a cache of gold.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Instead, he held that the guards had not “consented” to be sued for damages, so Landor could not recover a dime from them.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
I didn’t even have a dime in my pockets.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
The most expensive item is Monroe's gold-toned 1950s cylindrical minaudiere purse carrying her tiny hair comb, a tube of lipstick, eight Philip Morris cigarettes and 1940s dimes.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
“We have to do a better job to find those pennies out there—those pennies, nickels and dimes to save and not turn the lights on until you need to,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
This meant that dimes, quarters and half dollars had the same amount of silver relative to their face values.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
Among those who were apparently educated on the taxpayers’ dimes is Secretary McMahon, a North Carolina native who holds a degree from East Carolina University, a public institution supported by the taxpayers of North Carolina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
I took my dimes and quarters and fed them into the slot, each coin clinking down one after the other.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
