greenback
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Steering the British pound after the European debt crisis delivered a lasting lesson in how a global economy engineered for efficiency had grown dangerously dependent on a single fragile point: America and its greenback.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2026
In theory, that could leave plenty of room for the greenback to continue higher.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 8, 2026
But buried in the recent strength of the greenback is a building risk.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026
Japanese authorities spent more than $70 billion last month propping up the currency as it weakened against the greenback.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
Even better, every other person “dropped some greenback love,” as Cool Papa would say, down into Wah-Wah Nita’s open guitar case.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Vocabulary lists containing greenback
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