pocketbook

Example Sentences

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“Broader electorates require democracy narratives grounded in pocketbook realities.”

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

“As long as I am asking my neighbors to make appropriations for anything that contributes to their taxes…I don’t get anything from the state or their pocketbook to do this job,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

With midterm elections coming in November, pocketbook subjects like the cost of groceries and utilities appear poised to grab a bigger share of voters’ attention — and ire.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

The school that produced Milton Friedman and 34 other Nobel Prize-winning economists is struggling to manage its pocketbook.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

“I needed another nickel for the gas man and I thought you wouldn’t care. You look in my pocketbook for change many a time.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith