penny
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Some experts argue the Lakers are worth every penny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
People signed up their pets, used aliases and played games with mailing addresses to bilk the company out of new releases for less than the cost of a penny.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Mead said the 1945 penny emerged suddenly when her partner kicked down a wall during renovations.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Cava earned 19 cents a share during the quarter, a penny above estimates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
All the kids hoped they’d win the wishing penny raffle after making their very own monster coin purses.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Shares are up 0.8% at 736 pence and have risen 7.7% year to date.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
JPM lowers its recommendation for the U.K. investment manager to underweight from neutral, but maintains the price target of 335 pence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Swiss bank lowers its recommendation on the stock to sell from neutral, but increases its price target to 280 pence from 260 pence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Shares fall 0.8% to 915.5 pence in London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Somewhere off to the right, another voice sang counterpoint to hers, some baker’s boy shouting, “Meat pies, three pence, hot meat pies here.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Seeing into the future that she’d soon be asked to work for pennies while someone else got obscenely rich, she passed.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
"There are so many people struggling to get by. Some months, we are really scraping the pennies and it can be difficult."
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The other explanation is it’s a cash grab made for pennies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Exxon Mobil lived through it when Hugo Chávez nationalized its projects in 2007 and spent years in international arbitration recovering pennies on the dollar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Whenever Bandit needed a few pennies to buy melon seeds or candied plums, she sent Precious Coins to ask Grandmother for them.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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