penny
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The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital plans to structure the investment through penny warrants that would yield the U.S. an equity ownership in the business without a significant capital investment, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
During a BBC Radio Oxford interview, she returned the penny to a delighted Mead so that it could stay in the house and "continue the story".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Fabyan presented them with endless work that had to be finished up, but he paid them not a penny more than usual.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
"The last two days the price has risen nine, 10 pence a litre," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The decision left him 'very much dissatisfied' because he was awarded only nine pence per day.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Shares closed Friday at 778.50 pence and are down 12% since the start of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Prices were rising "not just by pennies", but by "25 or 30 pence" each time she visited the shops, she added.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Mr. Butterbur paid for it himself, and offered Merry another eighteen pence as some compensation for the lost animals.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
There were 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound before decimalisation in 1971.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Stock your employer put in 25 years ago may have cost pennies against today’s price.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
The other explanation is it’s a cash grab made for pennies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Finally I grab a roll of Life Savers and put my pennies in Mr. Jackson’s fat, sweaty hand.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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