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[dol-er] / ˈdɒl ər /


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Most trades on Binance are in dollar cryptocurrencies, which make up more than 99% of the global stablecoin market.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The cut applies to Canada’s marginal-effective tax rate, which is the levy companies pay on each additional dollar of business investment.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

The national average for one gallon of regular gasoline is up 16 cents from last week to $4.43, more than a dollar more than a year ago, according to AAA.

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

Central bankers are keeping tabs on movements in the yen, which fell to a 40-year low against the dollar in July, prompting a historic joint US-Japanese intervention in foreign exchange markets.

From Barron's

Sitting on a limb, with his back against the trunk, was that hundred dollar monkey.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

In conducting a rare joint intervention with Tokyo to prop up the yen, Bessent said that in the future, Japan should consider borrowing dollars from the Fed rather than selling down its Treasury holdings.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

But Laforge is the most skeptical about this strategy, explaining that its estimates have been off in the region of hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years.

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

“I can’t believe these people are going to pay me a couple thousand dollars per episode to go fishing,” Walters remembered thinking.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

Unified would benefit mightily from such funds — to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, but that infusion would not solve the district’s financial problems or remedy the enrollment decline.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

“That’ll be thirty-five dollars and seventy-two cents,” says the visor-wearing teen at the window.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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