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ledger

[lej-er] / ˈlɛdʒ ɛr /
NOUN
account book
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On the other side of the ledger, what work does he have to show on behalf of the American people?

From Slate Jul. 9, 2026

Add the rest of the ledger and the pattern is unmistakable.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

Some of the SpaceX investors on Kahlon’s ledger are easy to identify: the Indian politician Abhishek Singhvi; Betsy DeVos, the former U.S. secretary of education; a British Virgin Islands company owned by Indonesian billionaires.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

Each cycle of expansion and contraction deposits more entropy – a measure of disorder – into the ledger.

From Science Daily Jun. 18, 2026

Amaranta fetched the ledger where she had written down the facts about her nephews and as the telegrams arrived she drew lines through the names until only that of the eldest remained.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dr Helen Paul, an economic historian at the University of Southampton, was one of the experts brought in to decipher 18th Century ledgers.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

During her morning news conference, she seemed to mock some of the U.S. evidence, including hand-written ledgers allegedly denoting payoffs to Mexican politicians.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

BVNK’s infrastructure bridges fiat currency with stablecoins, which are dollar-pegged tokens traded on blockchain ledgers.

From Barron's Mar. 17, 2026

The bank previously said Hartheimer’s conduct was unrelated to its operations and that customers’ misplaced funds stemmed from inaccurate ledgers maintained by Synapse.

From MarketWatch Mar. 17, 2026

Tables hold maps of Maison Rouge de la Beauté, newspaper advertisements for the teahouses, and imperial beauty law ledgers.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton




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