dime
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And yet you can’t bring yourself to spend a dime of it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 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
Thousands who flew into Sin City on the insurer’s dime were treated to a Pink concert, a Jimmy Fallon-led singalong and selfies with the “Jake from State Farm” actor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Electrospray thrusters are tiny rocket engines, roughly the size of a dime.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
Then he tried to focus his eyes so that he could read the mottoes on the nickel and dime.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
Traders bundled silver dimes, quarters and half-dollars in face-value increments and launched an arcane—not to mention bulky—asset class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
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
“Their discs sell like dimes going for a nickel,” Florabel Muir reported in the Los Angeles Mirror in January 1952.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
I don’t refer merely to the glaring fact that the minister eventually acquires houses and Cadillacs while the faithful continue to scrub floors and drop their dimes and quarters and dollars into the plate.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
