pocketbook

Example Sentences

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“Broader electorates require democracy narratives grounded in pocketbook realities.”

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

With midterm elections coming in November, pocketbook subjects like the cost of groceries and utilities appear poised to grab a bigger share of voters’ attention — and ire.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

By the early 20th century, dictionaries of American slang show gravy drifting from the plate to the pocketbook.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

The school that produced Milton Friedman and 34 other Nobel Prize-winning economists is struggling to manage its pocketbook.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

We don't know anyplace else but Greenville now—New York is only the pictures she shows us in magazines and the two she has in her pocketbook of our aunt Kay.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson