dime
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I don’t want to force him to spend a dime he’s uncomfortable spending.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Opinions are a dime a dozen, but personal stories are precious and much harder to argue with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Megan: Brand events in New York City are a dime a dozen these days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Mayor Bozzo countered that Amazon has promised to build a pipeline, on its own dime, to bring wastewater to the data center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Well, I’d have a fine time explaining that to the bus company. Why, you’re no bigger than a dime yourself.”
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
The most expensive item is Monroe's gold-toned 1950s cylindrical minaudiere purse carrying her tiny hair comb, a tube of lipstick, eight Philip Morris cigarettes and 1940s dimes.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
“We have to do a better job to find those pennies out there—those pennies, nickels and dimes to save and not turn the lights on until you need to,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
This meant that dimes, quarters and half dollars had the same amount of silver relative to their face values.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
“Their discs sell like dimes going for a nickel,” Florabel Muir reported in the Los Angeles Mirror in January 1952.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
I said, “Not yet. Big Ma hasn’t gotten over the collect call from yesterday. We gotta get up enough dimes to make a real call across the country.”
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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