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She used her conference speech to argue they will be the party of "fivers" – emulating the micro-donations successes of US figures like Barak Obama and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

We were not even asking for pounds or fivers but just pennies.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2022

My former Boston Globe colleague Marie Franklin helped spark this effort; she has blogged about how she saved over $40,000 in less than 15 years just by not spending fivers.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2022

There are £63bn worth of notes in circulation in the UK: if you wanted to lop 1% off that, you could simply cancel half of all fivers without warning.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2016

The notes weren't fivers, nor tenners; they were all twenty-pound notes.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell