dime
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Kilgore has flown to L.A. on his own dime to guide Folger through the pre-show tech rehearsal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
Nor, as it developed, would he make a dime off of them—in the short term, at least.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
The overall energy of the trip and the relationships strengthened by shared experience are worth much more than the nickels and dimes you won’t miss in the long run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
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
Impressed by her intensity, the counter man shoved six loaves and the least battered of the rejected pies at her and took her two dimes.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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